Numbers 15:35
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New International Version (©2011)
Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must be put to death! The whole community must stone him outside the camp."

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the LORD said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then the LORD told Moses, "The man is to be put to death. The entire community is to stone him outside the camp."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then the LORD told Moses, "The man is certainly to die. The entire community is to stone him to death outside the camp."

NET Bible (©2006)
Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone him with stones outside the camp."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the LORD said to Moses, "This man must be put to death. The whole community must take him outside the camp and stone him."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.

American King James Version
And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah said unto Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to Moses: Let that man die, let all the multitude stone him without the camp.

Darby Bible Translation
And Jehovah said to Moses, The man shall certainly be put to death: the whole assembly shall stone him with stones outside the camp.

English Revised Version
And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

World English Bible
Yahweh said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp."

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'The man is certainly put to death, all the company stoning him with stones, at the outside of the camp.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:30-36 Those are to be reckoned presumptuous sinners, who sin designedly against God's will and glory. Sins thus committed are exceedingly sinful. He that thus breaks the commandment reproaches the Lord. He also despises the word of the Lord. Presumptuous sinners despise it, thinking themselves too great, too good, and too wise, to be ruled by it. A particular instance of presumption in the sin of sabbath-breaking is related. The offence was gathering sticks on the sabbath day, to make a fire, whereas the people were to bake and seethe what they had occasion for, the day before, Ex 16:23. This was done as an affront both to the law and to the Lawgiver. God is jealous for the honour of his sabbaths, and will not hold him guiltless who profanes them, whatever men may do. God intended this punishment for a warning to all, to make conscience of keeping holy the sabbath. And we may be assured that no command was ever given for the punishment of sin, which, at the judgment day, shall not prove to have come from perfect love and justice. The right of God to a day of devotion to himself, will be disputed and denied only by such as listen to the pride and unbelief of their hearts, rather than to the teaching of the Spirit of truth and life. Wherein consists the difference between him who was detected gathering sticks in the wilderness on the day of God, and the man who turns his back upon the blessings of sabbath appointments, and the promises of sabbath mercies, to use his time, his cares, and his soul, in heaping up riches; and waste his hours, his property, and his strength in sinful pleasure? Wealth may come by the unhallowed effort, but it will not come alone; it will have its awful reward. Sinful pursuits lead to ruin.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 35. - Without the camp. That it might not be defiled (cf. Acts 7:58, and Hebrews 13:12).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Lord said unto Moses,.... Who consulted the Lord upon this affair, in the tabernacle, even at the most holy place, from above the mercy seat, where he promised to meet him, and commune with him about whatsoever he should consult him, Exodus 25:22,

the man shall surely be put to death; for as no fire was to be made throughout their habitations on a sabbath day, gathering sticks for such a purpose was a work that was a violation of the sabbath, punishable with death, Exodus 35:2; and the kind of death follows:

all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp; as afterwards without the city: of the place and manner of stoning; see Gill on Acts 7:58.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

35, 36. The Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death—The Lord was King, as well as God of Israel, and the offense being a violation of the law of the realm, the Sovereign Judge gave orders that this man should be put to death; and, moreover, He required the whole congregation unite in executing the fatal sentence.

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A Sabbath-Breaker Stoned
…34And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. 35And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. 36And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Luke 4:29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff.
Exodus 31:14 "'Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it is to be put to death; those who do any work on that day must be cut off from their people.
Leviticus 20:2 "Say to the Israelites: 'Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him.
Leviticus 20:27 "'A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.'"
Leviticus 24:14 "Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.
Numbers 15:36 So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy 21:21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.