Originally Posted by DBT

The priesthood did not know what to do, perhaps they would have been lenient..... it was God who ordered his death by stoning...


conditions being in the wilderness, one might think there would be some leniency toward the offender.... keeping in mind
Those Israelites who set out to gather manna on the sabbath were simply told to return to their tents...this despite Exodus 16
saying they were not even permitted to leave their dwellings on the sabbath,( to do so would be deemed a capital offence.)

So the Lord seems arbitrary in measuring out penalties.

now fast forward to the disciples of Jesus who were harvesting heads of grain on the sabbath,
and Jesus defends their actions.

-Bulletproof and Waterproof don't mean Idiotproof.