They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him.

You must place them<n id="1" /> in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant<n id="2" /> where I meet with you.

Then Moses placed the staffs before the <sc>Lordsc> in the tent of the testimony.<n id="1" />p>

For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon<n id="1" /> them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Then a man who is ceremonially clean must gather up the ashes of the red heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept<n id="1" /> for the community of the Israelites for use in the water of purification<n id="2" /> &#8211; it is a purification for sin.<n id="3" />