Numbers 15:18–41

¹⁸“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land where I bring you,

¹⁹then it shall be, that when you eat of the ^1afood of the land, you shall lift up ²an offering to the Lord.

²⁰‘^aOf the first of your ¹dough you shall lift up a cake as an ²offering; as ^bthe offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.

²¹‘From the first of your ¹dough you shall give to the Lord an ²offering throughout your generations.

²²‘But when you ^aunwittingly fail and do not observe all these commandments, which the Lord has spoken to Moses,

²³even all that the Lord has commanded you ¹through Moses, from the day when the Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations,

²⁴then it shall be, if it is done ^aunintentionally, ¹without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one bull for a burnt offering, as a soothing aroma to the Lord, ^bwith its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.

²⁵‘Then ^athe priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they will be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their error.

²⁶‘So all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, with the alien who sojourns among them, for it happened to all the people through ^aerror.

²⁷‘Also if one person sins ^aunintentionally, then he shall offer a one year old female goat for a sin offering.

²⁸‘^aThe priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who goes astray when he sins unintentionally, making atonement for him ¹that he may be forgiven.

²⁹‘You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the alien who sojourns among them.

³⁰‘But the person who does anything ^adefiantly, whether he is native or an alien, that one is blaspheming the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

³¹‘Because he has ^adespised the word of the Lord and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; ^bhis ¹guilt will be on him.’ ”

Sabbath-breaking Punished

³²Now while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man ^agathering wood on the sabbath day.

³³Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation;

³⁴and they put him in ¹custody ^abecause it had not been ²declared what should be done to him.

³⁵Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death; ^aall the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”

³⁶So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him ¹to death with stones, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

³⁷The Lord also spoke to Moses, saying,

³⁸“Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves ^atassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue.

³⁹“It shall be a tassel for you ¹to look at and ^aremember all the commandments of the Lord, so as to do them and not ²follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot,

⁴⁰so that you may remember to do all My commandments and ^abe holy to your God.

⁴¹“I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the Lord your God.”