A Ruling about Collecting Wood on the Sabbath

Numbers 15:32–36

Biblical Period

32Once, when the Israelites were in the wilderness, they came upon a man gathering wood on the sabbath day. 33Those who found him as he was gathering wood brought him before Moses, Aaron, and the whole community. 34He was placed in custody, for it had not been specified what should be done to him. 35Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be…

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