Numbers 15:17–36

¹⁷Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them:

¹⁸When you are come into the land which I will give you,

¹⁹And shall eat of the bread of that country, you shall separate firstfruits to the Lord,

²⁰Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your barnfloors:

²¹So also shall you give firstfruits of your dough to the Lord.

²²And if through ignorance you omit any of these things, which the Lord hath spoken to Moses,

²³And by him hath commanded you from the day that he began to command and thenceforward,

²⁴And the multitude have forgotten to do it: they shall offer a calf out of the herd, a holocaust for a most sweet savour to the Lord, and the sacrifice and libations thereof, as the ceremonies require, and a buck goat for sin:

²⁵And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children of Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned ignorantly, offering notwithstanding a burnt offering to the Lord for themselves and for their sin and their ignorance:

²⁶And it shall be forgiven all the people of the children of Israel: and the strangers that sojourn among them: because it is the fault of all the people through ignorance.

²⁷But if one soul shall sin ignorantly, he shall offer a she goat of a year old for his sin.

²⁸And the priest shall pray for him, because he sinned ignorantly before the Lord: and he shall obtain his pardon, and it shall be forgiven him.

²⁹The same law shall be for all that sin by ignorance, whether they be natives or strangers.

³⁰But the soul that committeth any thing through pride, whether he be born in the land or a stranger (because he hath been rebellious against the Lord) shall be cut off from among his people:

³¹For he hath contemned the word of the Lord, and made void his precept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity.

³²And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day,

³³That they brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole multitude.

³⁴And they put him into prison, not knowing what they should do with him.

³⁵And the Lord said to Moses: Let that man die, let all the multitude stone him without the camp.

³⁶And when they had brought him out, they stoned him, and he died as the Lord had commanded.