Numbers 15:28-41

²⁸The priest will make the person who sinned unintentionally right before the Lord their behalf. Once they have been made right, they will be forgiven.

²⁹You shall apply the same law for the one who mistakenly sins to an Israelite or a foreigner living among you.

³⁰But the person who sins in defiance, whether an Israelite or foreigner, is blaspheming the Lord. They shall be expelled from their people.

³¹They have to be expelled, because they have treated the word of the Lord with contempt and broken his commandment. They are responsible for the consequences of their own guilt.’”

³²During the time the Israelites were wandering in the desert, a man was caught collecting firewood on the Sabbath.

³³The people who found him collecting wood brought him before Moses, Aaron, and the rest of the Israelites.

³⁴They placed him under guard because it wasn't clear what should happen to him.

³⁵The Lord told Moses, “This man has to be executed. All the Israelites are to stone him outside the camp.”

³⁶So they all took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had ordered Moses.

³⁷Sometime later the Lord told Moses,

³⁸“Tell the Israelites that for all future generations you must make tassels for the hems of your clothes and attach them with blue cord.

³⁹When you look at these tassels you will be reminded to keep all the commandments of the Lord and not be unfaithful, following your own thoughts and desires.

⁴⁰In this way you'll remember to keep all my commandments and you will be holy to your God. I am the Lord your God who led you out of Egypt to be your God.

⁴¹I am the Lord your God!”