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Numbers 15:32-39 New King James Version (NKJV)

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

33. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

34. They put him under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him.

35. Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”

36. So, as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.

37. Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

38. “Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners.

39. And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,

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