Numbers 15

1 Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

The Lord told Moses,

2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have 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 Jehovah, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Jehovah, 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 he who offers his offering shall offer to Jehovah a meal offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a 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 wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each 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 meal offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a 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 the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to Jehovah.

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

8 When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Jehovah;

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 offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a 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 offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Jehovah.

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 each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.

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 you shall do to everyone according to their number.

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

13 "'All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Jehovah.

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

14 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 Jehovah; 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 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who lives among you, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before Jehovah.

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 ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.'"

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

17 Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Then the Lord told Moses,

18 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell 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 a wave offering to Jehovah.

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

20 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.

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 Jehovah a wave offering throughout your generations.

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

22 "'When you shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Jehovah 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 Jehovah has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Jehovah gave commandment, and onward throughout 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 it be 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 Jehovah, with the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it, according to the ordinance, and one male goat 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 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 Jehovah, and their sin offering before Jehovah, for their error:

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 all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.

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

27 "'If one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old 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 The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly, before Jehovah, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

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 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.

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

30 "'But the person who acts defiantly, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes God, and that person is to 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 Jehovah, 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 While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering 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 Those who 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 They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

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

35 Jehovah said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp."

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

36 All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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

37 Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Sometime later the Lord told Moses,

38 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord 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 Jehovah, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;

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 Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Jehovah your God."

I am the Lord your God!”