In the book of Numbers there's a brief story about a guy picking up sticks on the Sabbath and ends up getting put to death because of it. This is another one of those confusing passages in the Bible that makes you go hrrmmmmm. We're going to take some time to wrestle with this unusual story in the middle of God's revelation of who He is. As usual we will go back and build some context from the book of Exodus and look at how this newly liberation nation would think about God.