< Numbers 15 >

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When you come into the land of your dwellings, which I am giving to you,
“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 then you have prepared a fire-offering to YHWH, a burnt-offering or a sacrifice, for separating a vow or free-will offering, or in your appointed things, to make a refreshing fragrance to YHWH, out of the herd or out of the flock.
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 And he who is bringing his offering near to YHWH has brought a present near of a tenth part of flour mixed with a fourth of the hin of 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 and you prepare a fourth of the hin of wine for a drink-offering, with the burnt-offering or for the sacrifice, for one 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 or for a ram you prepare a present of two-tenth parts of flour mixed with a third of the hin of 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 and you bring a third part of the hin of wine near for a drink-offering—a refreshing fragrance to YHWH.
For the drink offering, you must offer a third of a hin of wine. It will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
8 And when you make a son of the herd a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice for separating a vow, or peace-offerings to YHWH,
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 he has brought near for the son of the herd a present of three-tenth parts of flour mixed with a half of the hin of 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 and you bring a half of the hin of wine near for a drink-offering, [for] a fire-offering of refreshing fragrance to YHWH;
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 thus it is done for one ox, or for one ram, or for a lamb of the sheep or of the goats.
It must be done this way for each bull, for each ram, and for each of the male lambs or young goats.
12 According to the number that you prepare, so you do to each, according to their number;
Every sacrifice that you prepare and offer must be done as described here.
13 every native does thus with these, for bringing a fire-offering near of refreshing fragrance to YHWH;
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 and when a sojourner sojourns with you, or whoever [is] in your midst throughout your generations, and he has made a fire-offering of refreshing fragrance to YHWH, as you do so he does.
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 One statute is for you of the congregation and for the sojourner who is sojourning, a continuous statute throughout your generations: as you [are] so is the sojourner before YHWH;
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 one law and one ordinance is for you and for the sojourner who is sojourning with you.”
The same law and decree must apply to you and to the foreigner who is staying with you.'”
17 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
Again Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
18 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: In your coming into the land to where I am bringing you in,
“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land where I will take you,
19 then it has been, in your eating of the bread of the land, you raise up a raised-offering to YHWH;
when you eat the food produced in the land, you must offer an offering and present it to me.
20 you raise up a cake of the first of your dough [as] a raised-offering; as the raised-offering of a threshing-floor, so you raise it up.
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 You give to YHWH from the first of your dough [as] a raised-offering throughout your generations.
You must give to me a raised offering throughout your people's generations from the first of your dough.
22 And when you err, and do not do all these commands which YHWH has spoken to 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 the whole that YHWH has charged on you by the hand of Moses, from the day that YHWH has commanded and from now on, throughout your 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 then it has been, if from the eyes of the congregation it has been done through ignorance, that all the congregation has prepared one bullock, a son of the herd, for a burnt-offering, for refreshing fragrance to YHWH, and its present, and its drink-offering, according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for 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 And the priest has made atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and it has been forgiven them, for it [is] ignorance, and they have brought in their offering, a fire-offering to YHWH, and their sin-offering before YHWH for their ignorance;
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 and it has been forgiven to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and to the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, for that all the people [did it] through ignorance.
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 And if one person sins through ignorance, then he has brought a female goat near, daughter of a year, for a sin-offering;
If a person sins unintentionally, then he must offer a female goat a year old as a sin offering.
28 and the priest has made atonement for the person who is erring, in his sinning through ignorance before YHWH, by making atonement for him, and it has been forgiven him;
The priest must make atonement before Yahweh for the person who sins unintentionally. That person will be forgiven when atonement has been made.
29 one law is for yourselves—for the native among the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst—for him who is doing [anything] through ignorance.
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 And the person who does [evil] with a high hand—of the native or of the sojourner—he is reviling YHWH, and that person has been cut off from the midst of his 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 because he despised the word of YHWH and has broken His command, that person is certainly cut off; his iniquity [is] on him.”
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 And the sons of Israel are in the wilderness, and they find a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day,
While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
33 and those finding him gathering wood bring him near to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation,
Those who found him brought him to Moses, Aaron, and all the community.
34 and they place him in confinement, for it [is] not explained what is [to be] done to him.
They kept him in custody because it had not been declared what should be done with him.
35 And YHWH says to Moses, “The man is certainly put to death [by] all the congregation stoning him with stones at the outside of 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 And all the congregation brings him out to the outside of the camp and stone him with stones, and he dies, as YHWH has commanded Moses.
So all the community brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
37 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
Again Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,
38 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have commanded to them, and they have made fringes on the skirts of their garments for themselves, throughout their generations, and they have put a ribbon of blue on the fringe of the skirt,
“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 and it has been to you for a fringe, and you have seen it, and have remembered all the commands of YHWH, and have done them, and you do not search after your heart and after your eyes, after which you are going whoring,
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 so that you remember and have done all My commands, and you have been holy to 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] your God YHWH, who has brought you out from the land of Egypt to become your God; I [am] your God YHWH.”
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to become your God. I am Yahweh your God.”

< Numbers 15 >