Numbers 15:17–36

¹⁷The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^18l“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you ¹⁹and when you eat of ^mthe bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the Lord. ²⁰ⁿOf the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a ^ocontribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it. ²¹ⁿSome of the first of your dough you shall give to the Lord as a contribution throughout your generations.

Laws About Unintentional Sins

^22p“But if you sin unintentionally,⁴ and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses, ²³all that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations, ²⁴then if it was done unintentionally ^qwithout the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord, ^rwith its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and ^sone male goat for a sin offering. ^25tAnd the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their mistake. ²⁶And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.

^27u“If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. ^28vAnd the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven. ^29wYou shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them. ^30xBut the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. ³¹Because he has ^ydespised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.”

A Sabbathbreaker Executed

³²While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man ^zgathering sticks on the Sabbath day. ³³And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. ^34aThey put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. ³⁵And the Lord said to Moses, ^b“The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall ^cstone him with stones outside the camp.” ³⁶And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.