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Numbers 15:29-41 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

29. One law shall be for all who sin by ignorance, as much for natives as for newcomers.

30. Yet truly, the soul who commits any of these acts through arrogance, whether he is a citizen or a sojourner, because he has rebelled against the Lord, shall perish from among his people.

31. For he has despised the word of the Lord, and he has nullified his precept. For this reason, he shall be destroyed, and he shall bear his iniquity."

32. And it happened that, when the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, and they had found a man collecting wood on the day of the Sabbath,

33. they brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to the whole multitude.

34. And they enclosed him in a prison, not knowing what they should do with him.

35. And the Lord said to Moses, "Let that man be put to death; let the entire crowd crush him with stones, outside the camp."

36. And when they had led him out, they overwhelmed him with stones, and he died, just as the Lord had instructed.

37. The Lord also said to Moses:

38. "Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall tell them to make for themselves hems at the corners of their cloaks, placing in them ribbons of hyacinth,

39. so that, when they see these, they may remember all the commandments of the Lord, and they may not follow their own thoughts and eyes, fornicating in various ways,

40. but instead, they, being more mindful of the precepts of the Lord, may do them and may be holy to their God.

41. I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, so that I may be your God."