Numbers 15

Laws about Offerings

15The Lord instructed Moses: ²“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you to settle in, ^s3and you make a fire offering ^tto the Lord from the herd or flock—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow, ^uor as a freewill offering, or at your appointed festivals—to produce a pleasing aroma for the Lord, ^v4the one presenting his offering to the Lord must also present a grain offering of two quarts ^wof fine flour mixed with a quart ^xof oil. ⁵Prepare a quart ^yof wine as a drink offering ^zwith the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb.

⁶“If you prepare a grain offering with a ram, it must be four quarts ^aof fine flour mixed with a third of a gallon ^bof oil. ^c7Also present a third of a gallon ^dof wine for a drink offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

⁸“If you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow, or as a fellowship offering to the Lord, ⁹a grain offering of six quarts ^eof fine flour mixed with two quarts ^fof oil must be presented with the bull. ^g10Also present two quarts ^hof wine as a drink offering. It is a fire offering of pleasing aroma to the Lord. ¹¹This is to be done for each ox, ram, lamb, or goat. ¹²This is how you must prepare each of them, no matter how many.

¹³“Every Israelite is to prepare these things in this way when he presents a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. ¹⁴When a foreigner resides with you or someone else is among you and wants to prepare a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he is to do exactly as you do throughout your generations. ¹⁵The assembly is to have the same statute for ⁱboth you and the foreign resident as a permanent statute throughout your generations. ^jYou and the foreigner will be alike before the Lord. ¹⁶The same law and the same ordinance will apply to both you and the foreigner who resides with you.” ^k

¹⁷The Lord instructed Moses: 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 ^las a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing floor. ^m21Throughout 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 ⁿ— 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 must then make atonement for the entire Israelite community so that they may be forgiven, ^ofor the sin was unintentional. They are to bring their offering, one made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their unintentional sin. ²⁶The entire Israelite community and the foreigner who resides among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.

²⁷“If one person sins unintentionally, ^phe is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering. ²⁸The priest must 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 a foreigner who lives among you.

³⁰“But the person who acts defiantly, ^qwhether native or foreign resident, blasphemes the Lord. ^rThat 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. ^s33Those 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.” ^t36So 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 ^ufor 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 become unfaithful by following your own heart ^vand your own eyes. ^w40This way you will remember and obey all My commands and be holy to your God. ⁴¹I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” ^x