Holy Scripture

Numbers 15:32

A church father on this verse
“I find, in taking up the Holy Scripture, that in the Old and New Testament stubbornness toward God is clearly condemned not in consideration of the number or heinousness of transgressions but in terms of a single violation of any precept whatsoever, and, further, that the judgment of God covers all forms of disobedien…”
Basil of Caesarea, 4th c. — PREFACE ON THE JUDGMENT OF GOD 15.32-36

Source: Septuagint

Original

32And the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

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In context

30And whatever soul either of the natives or of the strangers shall do anything with a presumptuous hand, he will provoke God; that soul shall be cut off from his people,

31for he has set at nought the word of the Lord and broken his commands: that soul shall be utterly destroyed, his sin is upon him.

— Numbers 15:32 —

33And they who found him gathering sticks on the Sabbath day brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel.

34And they placed him in custody, for they did not determine what they should do to him.

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