Numbers 15
1 The Lord told Moses,
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
2 “Tell the Israelites, ‘These are instructions about what you are to do once you arrive in the country I'm giving you to live in.
“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you go into the land where you will live, which Yahweh will give to you,
3 When you bring an offering to the Lord from your herd or flock (whether it's a burnt offering, a sacrifice to fulfill a promise you made, or a freewill or festival offering) that will be acceptable to the Lord,
you are to prepare an offering by fire to Yahweh, either a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or a freewill offering, or an offering at your feasts, to produce a pleasing aroma for Yahweh from the herd or the flock.
4 then you shall also present a grain offering of one tenth of an ephah of best flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.
You must offer to Yahweh a burnt offering as well as a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil.
5 Add a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering to the burn offering or the sacrifice of a lamb.
You must also offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, one-fourth of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.
6 When it comes to a ram, present a grain offering of two tenths of an ephah of best flour mixed with a third of a hin of olive oil,
If you are offering a ram, you must prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.
7 along with a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering, all of them to be acceptable to the Lord.
For the drink offering, you must offer a third of a hin of wine. It will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
8 When you bring a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a promise you made or as a peace offering to the Lord,
When you prepare a bull as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a fellowship offering to Yahweh,
9 then you shall also with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the best flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil.
then you must offer with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil.
10 Add a half a hin of wine as a drink offering. All this is an offering to be acceptable to the Lord.
You must offer as the drink offering half a hin of wine, as an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
11 This is to be done for every bull, ram, lamb, or goat brought as an offering.
It must be done this way for each bull, for each ram, and for each of the male lambs or young goats.
12 This is what you need to do for each one, however many.
Every sacrifice that you prepare and offer must be done as described here.
13 Every Israelite is to follow these instructions when they present an offering that is accepted by the Lord.
All who are native-born Israelites must do these things in this way, when anyone brings an offering made by fire, to produce an aroma that is pleasing to Yahweh.
14 This also applies for all future generations that if a foreigner living among you or anyone else among you wishes to present an offering acceptable to the Lord: they are to do exactly what you do.
If a foreigner is staying with you, or whoever may live among you throughout your people's generations, he must make an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. He must act as you act.
15 The whole congregation must have the same rules for you and for the foreigner living among you. This is a permanent law for all future generations You and the foreigner are to be treated the same way before the law.
There must be the same law for the community and for the foreigner who stays with you, a permanent law throughout your people's generations. As you are, so also must be the traveler staying with you. He must act as you act before Yahweh.
16 The same rules and regulations apply to you and the foreigner living among you.’”
The same law and decree must apply to you and to the foreigner who is staying with you.'”
17 Then the Lord told Moses,
Again Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
18 “Tell the Israelites, ‘When you get to the country where I'm leading you
“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land where I will take you,
19 and you eat the food produced there, you shall give some of it as an offering to the Lord.
when you eat the food produced in the land, you must offer an offering and present it to me.
20 You are to give some of the flour you make into loaves as a gift—present it just like an offering from the threshing floor.
From the first of your dough you must offer a loaf to raise it up as a raised offering from the threshing floor. You must raise it up in this way.
21 For all future generations, you are to give the Lord an offering from the first of your flour.
You must give to me a raised offering throughout your people's generations from the first of your dough.
22 Now if you collectively sin without meaning to and don't follow all these instructions that the Lord has given Moses—
You will sometimes sin without intending to do so, when you do not obey all these commands that I have spoken to Moses—
23 everything that the Lord has ordered you to do through Moses from the time that the Lord gave them and for all future generations—
everything that I have commanded you through Moses from the day that I began to give you commands and onward throughout your people's generations.
24 and if it was done unintentionally without everyone knowing about it, then the whole congregation is to present a young bull as a burnt offering to be accepted by the Lord, along with its grain offering and drink offering presented according to the rules, as well as a male goat as a sin offering.
In the case of unintentional sin without the community's knowledge, then all the community must offer one young bull as a burnt offering to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. Along with this must be made a grain offering and drink offering, as commanded by the decree, and one male goat as a sin offering.
25 In this way the priest is to make the whole congregation of Israel right with the Lord so that they can be forgiven, because the sin was unintentional and they have presented the Lord with an burnt offering and a sin offering, offered before the Lord for their unintentional sin.
The priest must make atonement for all the community of the people of Israel. They will be forgiven because the sin was an error. They have brought their sacrifice, an offering made by fire to me. They have brought their sin offering before me for their error.
26 Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven, because the people sinned unintentionally.
Then all the community of the people of Israel will be forgiven, and also the foreigners who are staying with them, because all the people committed the sin unintentionally.
27 In the case of an individual who sins without meaning to—they are to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.
If a person sins unintentionally, then he must offer a female goat a year old as a sin offering.
28 The priest will make the person who sinned unintentionally right before the Lord their behalf. Once they have been made right, they will be forgiven.
The priest must make atonement before Yahweh for the person who sins unintentionally. That person will be forgiven when atonement has been made.
29 You shall apply the same law for the one who mistakenly sins to an Israelite or a foreigner living among you.
You must have the same law for the one who does anything unintentionally, the same law for the one who is native born among the people of Israel and for the foreigners who are staying among them.
30 But the person who sins in defiance, whether an Israelite or foreigner, is blaspheming the Lord. They shall be expelled from their people.
But the person who does anything in defiance, whether he is native born or a foreigner, blasphemes me. That person must be cut off from among his people.
31 They have to be expelled, because they have treated the word of the Lord with contempt and broken his commandment. They are responsible for the consequences of their own guilt.’”
Because he has despised my word and has broken my commandment, that person must be cut off completely. His sin will be on him.'”
32 During the time the Israelites were wandering in the desert, a man was caught collecting firewood on the Sabbath.
While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
33 The people who found him collecting wood brought him before Moses, Aaron, and the rest of the Israelites.
Those who found him brought him to Moses, Aaron, and all the community.
34 They placed him under guard because it wasn't clear what should happen to him.
They kept him in custody because it had not been declared what should be done with him.
35 The Lord told Moses, “This man has to be executed. All the Israelites are to stone him outside the camp.”
Then Yahweh said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. All the community must stone him with stones outside the camp.”
36 So they all took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had ordered Moses.
So all the community brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
37 Sometime later the Lord told Moses,
Again Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
38 “Tell the Israelites that for all future generations you must make tassels for the hems of your clothes and attach them with blue cord.
“Speak to the descendants of Israel and command them to make for themselves tassels to hang from the borders of their garments, to hang them from each border by a blue cord. They must do this throughout their people's generations.
39 When you look at these tassels you will be reminded to keep all the commandments of the Lord and not be unfaithful, following your own thoughts and desires.
It will be a special reminder to you, when you may look at it, of all my commandments, to carry them out so that you do not look to your own heart and your own eyes and prostitute yourselves to them.
40 In this way you'll remember to keep all my commandments and you will be holy to your God. I am the Lord your God who led you out of Egypt to be your God.
Do this so that you may call to mind and obey all my commandments, and so that you may be holy, reserved for me, your God.
41 I am the Lord your God!”
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to become your God. I am Yahweh your God.”
