Now let me give you some good advice, and God will be with you. It is right for you to represent the people before God and bring their disputes to him.

You should teach them God's commands and explain to them how they should live and what they should do.

put him under guard, and waited for the LORD to tell them what to do with him.

"Take that man out of the camp. Everyone who heard him curse shall put his hands on the man's head to testify that he is guilty, and then the whole community shall stone him to death.

and was put under guard, because it was not clear what should be done with him.

Moses presented their case to the LORD,