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Originally Posted by Levi Jones
He generally listened to his boss and carried out His instructions.
Plus, stoning is a worthy punishment for gathering firewood on the Sabbath.
Numbers 15:33-36
33And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
34And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
35And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
36And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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I hope those people had the foresight to prep a pile of stones
before the Sabbath. If not, then they would have been obliged to stone the people who had gathered the stones. And, come to think of it, wouldn't the effort of throwing stones with intent to kill be considered work on the Sabbath? So, would they all have to stoned to death by some other group of people? Then that group of people would have to be stoned by another group of people. . . Or, maybe executions on the Sabbath (that are, of course, mandated by the LORD) aren't considered work so much as a religious observance? Perhaps God-- with His Infinite Wisdom and Omniscience and Omnipotence-- conveniently placed a whole bunch of stones-- which were the right size and weight, (nothing too heavy or that would have been considered work)-- right there on the ground at the place where they took the man to kill him. . . Now that I think about it, there is that saying, "Many hands make light work" which means if everyone was acting in concert, it really
wasn't work on the Sabbath because there were so many stones being flung that nobody really had to throw that hard. . . I am very confused.