Exemplary punishment for sabbath-breaking. Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man shall certainly be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”
So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT13
The Experiences in the Wilderness
II. FROM SINAI TO THE JORDAN, Numbers 10:11-22:1
Laws About sabbath-breaking Num 15:27-41
21. Why was the Sabbath-breaker cut off from among the people?
LAWS ABOUT UNINTENTIONAL SINS
‘Also if one person sins unintentionally, then he shall offer a female goat one year old as a sin offering.
The priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who commits an error when he sins unintentionally, making atonement for him so that he may be forgiven.
You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, whether he is native-born among the Israelites or a stranger who is living among them as a resident alien.
But the person who does [anything wrong] willfully and defiantly, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one is blaspheming the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people [excluding him from the atonement made for them].
Because he has despised and rejected the word of the LORD, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; [the responsibility for] his wickedness and guilt will be upon him.'”
A SABBATHBREAKER EXECUTED
Now while the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man who was gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation;
and they put him in custody, because it had not been explained [by God] what should be done to him.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man shall certainly be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”
So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
TASSELS ON GARMENTS
The LORD said to Moses,
“Speak to the sons of Israel and tell them to make for themselves tassels on the hems of their garments throughout their generations, and put a cord of blue on the tassel of each hem.
It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, so that you do not follow after [the desires of] your own heart and eyes, [desires] after which you used to follow and play the prostitute,
so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be holy (set apart) to your God.
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God.”
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Numbers 15:27-41
EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT FOR SABBATH-BREAKING
This chapter resembles a sweet flute-like melody inserted between two fierce strains. It reminds us that in the middle of wrath God remembers mercy. The stranger-whether pilgrim, emigrant or slave-was to be included in burned-offerings and sacrifices; a prevision of the time when all holy souls shall be reckoned in the household of God, Eph_2:19.
Sins of ignorance may be forgiven, Num_15:22-29. They are sins. Debts of shortcoming need pardon equally as do trespasses. But, as Paul teaches us, we may confidently count on forgiveness for evil things done unwittingly. See 1Ti_1:12-14; Heb_5:2. It is quite otherwise with sins of presumption, Num_15:30-36. If persisted in, these induce death. See 1Jn_5:16.
We have something better than the memorial fringe, in the ministry of the Holy Spirit, Joh_14:26.
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