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How should Sabbath-breakers be punished?
Both groups prescribe death; the phrase 'cut off' in the repeated verse does not establish a separate, exclusively nonlethal punishment.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Both groups explicitly prescribe death; cut off is not an exclusive alternative penalty in the repeated verse.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Sabbath violation is described as death and being cut off
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Exodus 31:14
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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The law specifies death and a stick gatherer is stoned
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Exodus 31:14
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)