Numbers 15

¹Numbers 15:1. Then the LORD said to Moses,²Numbers 15:2. “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home³Numbers 15:3. and you present a food offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—⁴Numbers 15:4. then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.⁵Numbers 15:5. With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.⁶Numbers 15:6. With a ram you are to prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of olive oil,⁷Numbers 15:7. and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.⁸Numbers 15:8. When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,⁹Numbers 15:9. present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil.¹⁰Numbers 15:10. Also present half a hin of wine as a drink offering. It is a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.¹¹Numbers 15:11. This is to be done for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat.¹²Numbers 15:12. This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.¹³Numbers 15:13. Everyone who is native-born shall prepare these things in this way when he presents a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.¹⁴Numbers 15:14. And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he is to do exactly as you do.¹⁵Numbers 15:15. The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.¹⁶Numbers 15:16. The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”¹⁷Numbers 15:17. Then the LORD said to Moses,¹⁸Numbers 15:18. “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you¹⁹Numbers 15:19. and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.²⁰Numbers 15:20. From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.²¹Numbers 15:21. Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.²²Numbers 15:22. Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—²³Numbers 15:23. all that the LORD has commanded you through Moses from the day the LORD gave them and continuing through the generations to come—²⁴Numbers 15:24. and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.²⁵Numbers 15:25. The priest is to make atonement for the whole congregation of Israel, so that they may be forgiven; for the sin was unintentional and they have brought to the LORD a food offering and a sin offering, presented before the LORD for their unintentional sin.²⁶Numbers 15:26. Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.²⁷Numbers 15:27. Also, if one person sins unintentionally, he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.²⁸Numbers 15:28. And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the person who erred by sinning unintentionally; and when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven.²⁹Numbers 15:29. You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.³⁰Numbers 15:30. But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.³¹Numbers 15:31. He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”

³²Numbers 15:32. While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.³³Numbers 15:33. Those who found the man gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation,³⁴Numbers 15:34. and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.³⁵Numbers 15:35. And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”³⁶Numbers 15:36. So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³⁷Numbers 15:37. And the LORD said to Moses,³⁸Numbers 15:38. “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.³⁹Numbers 15:39. These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.⁴⁰Numbers 15:40. Then you will remember and obey all My commandments, and you will be holy to your God.⁴¹Numbers 15:41. 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.”