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Numbers 15:22–41

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

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

24 then 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

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

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

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

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

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

37 The 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,

40 so 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.”

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