It wasn't a "mistake"...he broke the law!
Hey, at least they ENFORCED the law!
If you don't like the law, change it.
The question isn't whether it was breaking the law or not...the question was, was the law a good one? I.e., do you believe it?
And then the matter of the punishment... stoning the offender. Remember, they said they didn't know what to do with him and the Lord commanded he be killed.
But if you go to the preceding verses (Numbers 15:24-32, the Lord has already stated the punishments for violating one of His laws, and stoning isn't the answer (it was "exile" or "bull/grain/wine/goat-offering/sacrifice" for intentional or unintentional violations, respectively).
Hey, at least they ENFORCED the law!
Yep...as barbarically then as it is now in the Middle East.
If you don't like the law, change it.
AGREED!!! But of course, post hoc application isn't right, either. :-)
So Jesus changed it all? I guess Jews also have reason for changing, without Jesus, but it does seem awfully convenient to stop following some of those laws without believing Jesus came to change their application.
But the YouTube question referred to the KJV...and as such, includes the NT. But I ask more broadly.