Numbers Chapter 15 verse 34 Holy Bible
And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
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And they had him shut up, because they had no directions about what was to be done with him.
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And they put him in custody, for it was not declared what should be done to him.
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And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
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And they put him in custody, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
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They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
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and they place him in ward, for it `is' not explained what is `to be' done to him.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 34. - They put him in ward, (cf. Leviticus 24:12), because it was not declared what should be done to him. This is perplexing, because the punishment of death had been decreed in Exodus 31:14, 15, and Exodus 35:2. It seems an evasion to say that although death had been decreed, the mode of death had not been fixed; for (1) it was clearly part of the Divine answer that the offence was really capital (see verse 35 a), and (2) it was understood that in such cases death was to be inflicted by stoning (see Leviticus 20:2; Leviticus 24:14; Joshua 7:25; in the last case the command was to bum the delinquents with fire, yet it was rightly taken for granted that they were to be stoned to death first). There are only two explanations which are satisfactory because they are honest. 1. The incident may possibly have occurred between the first institution of the sabbath (Exodus 16:23, 29) and the decree of death to those that broke it. There is nothing in the record as it stands here to contradict such an assumption. . . .