No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

Why have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

“Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses; but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.