Numbers 15:36

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 15:36 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the congregation brought him out to from outside to the camp, and they stoned him with the stones, and he died, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And all the Congregation brought him without the hoste, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And when they had brought him out, they stoned him, and he died as the Lord had commanded.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And all the company bring him out unto the outside of the camp, and stone him with stones, and he dieth, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the congregation brings him out to the outside of the camp and stone him with stones, and he dies, as YHWH has commanded Moses.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    So all the community brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the congregation brought him out to from outside to the camp, and they stoned him with the stones, and he died, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And the whole assembly led him outside the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    So they all took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had ordered Moses.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    So all the people took him outside the tent-circle and he was stoned to death there, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    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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וַיִּרְגְּמ֥וּ
râgam
H7275
“and · to stone”
Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Verb
Stem
Qal
Form
Sequential Imperfect
Person
3rd Person
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root [compare H7263 , H7321 , H7551 ]

TWOT: 2114

to stone, slay or kill by stoning - (Qal) to stone
  1. וַיֹּצִ֨יאוּ yâtsâʼ H3318 “and · to go out” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  2. אֹת֜וֹ ʼêth H853 “- · him” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  3. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  4. הָעֵדָ֗ה ʻêdâh H5712 “the · congregation” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  5. אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
  6. מִחוּץ֙ chûwts H2351 “from · outside” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה machăneh H4264 “to/for the · camp” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  8. אֹת֛וֹ ʼêth H853 “- · him” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  9. בָּאֲבָנִ֖ים ʼeben H68 “in/at the · stones” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
  10. וַיָּמֹ֑ת mûwth H4191 “and · to die” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  11. כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר ʼăsher H834 “like/as · which” Preposition + Particle, Relative
  12. צִוָּ֥ה tsâvâh H6680 “to command” Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  13. יְהוָ֖ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  14. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  15. מֹשֶֽׁה Môsheh H4872 “Moses” Noun, Proper

About this verse

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16
words
14
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וַיִּרְגְּמ֥וּ to stone H7275 — appearing just 16 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וַיִּרְגְּמ֥וּ to stone H7275 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 4 verbs
  • 7 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 4 particles

Verb forms

  • וַיֹּצִ֨יאוּ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיִּרְגְּמ֥וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיָּמֹ֑ת Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • צִוָּ֥ה Piel · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 27 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 16 Hebrew tokens and 24 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Numbers 15:36 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Joshua 7:25 Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Yahweh shall trouble you this day. All Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew Numbers 15:36 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּצִ֨יאוּ אֹת֜וֹ כָּל הָעֵדָ֗ה אֶל מִחוּץ֙ לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה וַיִּרְגְּמ֥וּ אֹת֛וֹ בָּאֲבָנִ֖ים וַיָּמֹ֑ת כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת מֹשֶֽׁה

All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 15:36 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἐκἄγω αὐτός πᾶς ὁ συναγωγή ἔξω ὁ παρεμβολή καί λιθοβολέω αὐτός πᾶς ὁ συναγωγή λίθος ἔξω ὁ παρεμβολή καθά συντάσσω κύριος ὁ μωυσῆς

And all the congregation brought him forth out of the camp; and all the congregation stoned him with stones outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְאַפִּיקוּ יָתֵיהּ כָּל כְּנִשְׁתָּא לְמִבָּרָא לְמַשְׁרִיתָא וּרְגָמוּ יָתֵהּ בְּאַבְנַיָא וּמִית כְּמָא דִי פַקִיד יְיָ יָת משֶׁה

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    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְהַנְפִּיקוּ יָתֵיהּ כָּל כְּנִישְׁתָּא מִבָּרָא לְמַשְׁרִיתָא וְאַטְלוּ יָתֵיהּ בְאַבְנַיָא וּמִית הֵיכְמָא דְפַקֵיד יְיָ יַת משֶׁה

    and the congregation led him forth without the camp, and stoned him with stones that he died, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Numbers 15:36 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 36. Stoned him] See Clarke on Le 24:23.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And the Lord spoke unto Moses,.... After the giving of the above laws, and the order for stoning the sabbath breaker; and the rather what follows is connected with them, because it was to put them in mind of these and all other commands; and of so much importance is the precept directed to, that the Jews say, and Jarchi particularly, that it is equivalent to all the commands, and which he makes to be the reason of its being placed here:

saying; as follows.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

36. Stoned him — See Lev_24:14, note.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And he died. He was killed not for what he did, but for doing it presumptuously, in deliberate defiance of what he knew to be the will of God. If the covenant relation was to be maintained between God and Israel, the observance of the sabbath, which was an integral part of that covenant, must be enforced, and he who willfully violated it must be cut off; and this consideration was of exceptional force in this case, as the first which had occurred, and as the one, therefore, which would govern all the rest. (cf. Act_5:5, Act_5:10) On the punishment of stoning see Lev_20:2 Lev_24:14 Act_7:58.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ויציאו אתו AND [ALL THE CONGREGATION] BROUGHT HIM OUTSIDE [THE CAMP] — From here we learn that the place of stoning was outside and distant from the seat of the Beth Din (Sifrei Bamidbar 114).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 16 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is râgam (“to stone”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word râgam carries the sense “to stone.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Leviticus 20:2, which shares the word «to stone», read alongside this verse?
  3. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  4. «וַיֹּצִ֨יאוּ» is a Hiphil Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Adam Clarke's Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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