Numbers 15:31
because the word of Jehovah he despised, and His command hath broken — that person is certainly cut off; his iniquity [is] on him.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
32And the sons of Israel are in the wilderness, and they find a man gathering wood on the sabbath-day,
Cross References
Exodus 30:33a man who compoundeth [any] like it, or who putteth of it on a stranger — hath even been cut off from his people.'
Leviticus 26:15and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands — to your breaking My covenant —
Numbers 9:13'And the man who is clean, and hath not been on a journey, and hath ceased to prepare the passover, even that person hath been cut off from his people; because the offering of Jehovah he hath not brought near, in its appointed season, that man doth bear his sin.
1 Samuel 3:14and therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli: the iniquity of the house of Eli is not atoned for, by sacrifice, and by offering — unto the age.'
Psalms 38:4For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden — too heavy for me.
Proverbs 13:13Whoso is despising the Word is destroyed for it, And whoso is fearing the Command is repayed.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 15:31-37
Doom of Presumptuous Sinners. ( b. c. 1490.) 30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord ; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he hath despised the word of the Lord , and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him. 32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. 33 And they that… Read the whole commentary →