Bible Strands
Numbers 15:35
And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD addresses Moses while the community holds a man in custody because the prescribed penalty had not yet been declared.
The words — The Hebrew יוּמַ֖ת (yu.Mat) conveys a certain passive death decree, while רָג֨וֹם (ra.Gom) specifies the physical method of stoning.
The thread — This extramural execution pattern matches the Sabbath death mandate in Exodus 31:14 and aligns with the community-led stoning recorded in Acts 7:58.
Why it lands — The passage commands immediate judicial obedience through collective action, requiring the community to carry out the divine sentence without delay or localized exception.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Exodus 31:14 Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people.
- Acts 7:58 They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
- 1 Kings 21:13 And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
- Leviticus 24:14 “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.
- Leviticus 24:23 Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Deuteronomy 21:21 Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
- Leviticus 20:2 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.
- Hebrews 13:11 Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.