Numbers 15

1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

The Lord told Moses,

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,

“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.

3 And will make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet smell to the LORD, of the herd or of the flock:

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,

4 Then shall he that offers his offering to the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.

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.

5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shall you prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.

Add a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering to the burn offering or the sacrifice of a lamb.

6 Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.

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,

7 And for a drink offering you shall offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet smell to the LORD.

along with a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering, all of them to be acceptable to the Lord.

8 And when you prepare a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings to the LORD:

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,

9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.

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.

10 And you shall bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet smell to the LORD.

Add a half a hin of wine as a drink offering. All this is an offering to be acceptable to the Lord.

11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.

This is to be done for every bull, ram, lamb, or goat brought as an offering.

12 According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall you do to every one according to their number.

This is what you need to do for each one, however many.

13 All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet smell to the LORD.

Every Israelite is to follow these instructions when they present an offering that is accepted by the Lord.

14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet smell to the LORD; as you do, so he shall do.

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.

15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourns with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

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.

16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourns with you.

The same rules and regulations apply to you and the foreigner living among you.’”

17 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Then the Lord told Moses,

18 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land where I bring you,

“Tell the Israelites, ‘When you get to the country where I'm leading you

19 Then it shall be, that, when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up an heave offering to the LORD.

and you eat the food produced there, you shall give some of it as an offering to the Lord.

20 You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as you do the heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it.

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.

21 Of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD an heave offering in your generations.

For all future generations, you are to give the Lord an offering from the first of your flour.

22 And if you have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD has spoken to Moses,

Now if you collectively sin without meaning to and don't follow all these instructions that the Lord has given Moses—

23 Even all that the LORD has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;

everything that the Lord has ordered you to do through Moses from the time that the Lord gave them and for all future generations—

24 Then it shall be, if something be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet smell to the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

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.

25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:

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.

26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourns among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.

Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven, because the people sinned unintentionally.

27 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.

In the case of an individual who sins without meaning to—they are to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.

28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sins ignorantly, when he sins by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.

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.

29 You shall have one law for him that sins through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourns among them.

You shall apply the same law for the one who mistakenly sins to an Israelite or a foreigner living among you.

30 But the soul that does something presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproaches the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

But the person who sins in defiance, whether an Israelite or foreigner, is blaspheming the Lord. They shall be expelled from their people.

31 Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.

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.’”

32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks on the sabbath day.

During the time the Israelites were wandering in the desert, a man was caught collecting firewood on the Sabbath.

33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

The people who found him collecting wood brought him before Moses, Aaron, and the rest of the Israelites.

34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

They placed him under guard because it wasn't clear what should happen to him.

35 And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

The Lord told Moses, “This man has to be executed. All the Israelites are to stone him outside the camp.”

36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

So they all took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had ordered Moses.

37 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Sometime later the Lord told Moses,

38 Speak to the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of the borders a ribbon of blue:

“Tell the Israelites that for all future generations you must make tassels for the hems of your clothes and attach them with blue cord.

39 And it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that you seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to go a whoring:

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.

40 That you may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.

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.

41 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.

I am the Lord your God!”