Numbers 15:36

36 So the whole community brought him outside the camp and threw stones at him until he died, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

Numbers 15:36 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 15:36

And all the congregation brought him without the camp
What was done by the order of Moses and the seventy elders is said to be done by the whole congregation, though it was by a few persons only the man was actually brought out, who were the proper officers to do such business:

and stoned him with stones, and he died:
stoned him to death:

as the Lord commanded Moses:
at the time he consulted him in the sanctuary, which he acquainted the court with, and they immediately ordered the execution, which was accordingly done.

Numbers 15:36 In-Context

34 They kept him in custody, because it had not yet been decided what to do to him.

35 Then ADONAI said to Moshe, "This man must be put to death; the entire community is to stone him to death outside the camp."

36 So the whole community brought him outside the camp and threw stones at him until he died, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

37 ADONAI said to Moshe,

38 "Speak to the people of Isra'el, instructing them to make, through all their generations, tzitziyot on the corners of their garments, and to put with the tzitzit on each corner a blue thread.