Numbers 15:18–41

¹⁸“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land where I am bringing you, ¹⁹you are to offer a contribution to the Lord when you eat from the food of the land. ²⁰You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough^c as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing floor.^{d 21}Throughout your generations, you are to give the Lord a contribution from the first batch of your dough.

²²“When you sin unintentionally and do not obey all these commands that the Lord spoke to Moses^e—²³all that the Lord has commanded you through Moses, from the day the Lord issued the commands and onward throughout your generations—²⁴and if it was done unintentionally without the community’s awareness, the entire community is to prepare one young bull for a burnt offering as 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. ²⁵The priest will then make atonement for the entire Israelite community so that they may be forgiven,^f for the sin was unintentional. They are to bring their offering, a food offering to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their unintentional sin. ²⁶The entire Israelite community and the alien who resides among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.

²⁷“If one person sins unintentionally,^g he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering. ²⁸The priest will then make atonement before the Lord on behalf of the person who acts in error sinning unintentionally, and when he makes atonement for him, he will be forgiven. ²⁹You are to have the same law for the person who acts in error, whether he is an Israelite or an alien who resides among you.

³⁰“But the person who acts defiantly,^A whether native or resident alien, blasphemes the Lord.^h That person is to be cut off from his people. ³¹He will certainly be cut off, because he has despised the Lord’s word and broken his command; his guilt remains on him.”

SABBATH VIOLATION

³²While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.^{i 33}Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the entire community. ³⁴They placed him in custody because it had not been decided what should be done to him. ³⁵Then the Lord told Moses, “The man is to be put to death. The entire community is to stone him outside the camp.”^{j 36}So the entire community brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

TASSELS FOR REMEMBRANCE

³⁷The Lord said to Moses, ³⁸“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout their generations they are to make tassels^k for the corners of their garments, and put a blue cord on the tassel at each corner. ³⁹These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the Lord’s commands and obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart^l and your own eyes.^{m 40}This way you will remember and obey all my commands and be holy to your God. ⁴¹I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the Lord your God.”ⁿ