Numbers 15
1 The Lord told Moses,
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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 children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I 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,
and will make an offering by fire to the LORD—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to the LORD, of the herd, or of 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.
then he who offers his offering shall offer to the LORD a meal offering of one 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 shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, 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,
“‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part 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.
and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.
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 for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to the LORD,
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 he shall offer with the bull a meal 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.
and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.
11 This is to be done for every bull, ram, lamb, or goat brought as an offering.
Thus it shall be done for each bull, for each ram, for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.
12 This is what you need to do for each one, however many.
According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number.
13 Every Israelite is to follow these instructions when they present an offering that is accepted by the Lord.
“‘All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.
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 stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD, as you do, so he shall do.
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.
For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so the foreigner shall be before the LORD.
16 The same rules and regulations apply to you and the foreigner living among you.’”
One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”
17 Then the Lord told Moses,
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
18 “Tell the Israelites, ‘When you get to the country where I'm leading you
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you,
19 and you eat the food produced there, you shall give some of it as an offering to the Lord.
then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to the LORD.
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.
Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
21 For all future generations, you are to give the Lord an offering from the first of your flour.
Of the first of your dough, you shall give to the LORD a wave offering throughout your generations.
22 Now if you collectively sin without meaning to and don't follow all these instructions that the Lord has given Moses—
“‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments which the LORD has 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—
even all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment and onward throughout your 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.
then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to the LORD, with its meal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for 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 shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error.
26 Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven, because the people sinned unintentionally.
All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly.
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 unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for 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 shall make atonement for the soul who errs when he sins unwittingly before the LORD. He shall make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.
29 You shall apply the same law for the one who mistakenly sins to an Israelite or a foreigner living among you.
You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner 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 soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That soul shall 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 the LORD’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall 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 children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks 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 gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
34 They placed him under guard because it wasn't clear what should happen to him.
They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
35 The Lord told Moses, “This man has to be executed. All the Israelites are to stone him outside the camp.”
The LORD said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”
36 So they all took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had ordered Moses.
All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.
37 Sometime later the Lord told Moses,
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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 children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue.
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 shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all the LORD’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;
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.
so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
41 I am the Lord your God!”
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.”
