Numbers 15

Laws of Grain and Drink Offerings

15And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^2a“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you, ³and you ^bmake an offering by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice, ^cto fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or ^din your appointed feasts, to make a ^esweet ¹aroma to the Lord, from the herd or the flock, ⁴then ^fhe who presents his offering to the Lord shall bring ^ga grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed ^hwith one-fourth of a hin of oil; ⁵ⁱand one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering you shall prepare with the burnt offering or the sacrifice, for each ^jlamb. ^6kOr for a ram you shall prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil; ⁷and as a drink offering you shall offer one-third of a hin of wine as a sweet aroma to the Lord. ⁸And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering, or as a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a ^lpeace offering to the Lord, ⁹then shall be offered ^mwith the young bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil; ¹⁰and you shall bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord.

¹¹ⁿ‘Thus it shall be done for each young bull, for each ram, or for each lamb or young goat. ¹²According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do with everyone according to their number. ¹³All who are native-born shall do these things in this manner, in presenting an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord. ¹⁴And if a stranger ²dwells with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and would present an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord, just as you do, so shall he do. ^15oOne ³ordinance shall be for you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwells with you, an ordinance forever throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord. ¹⁶One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you.’ ”

¹⁷Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^18p“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land to which I bring you, ¹⁹then it will be, when you eat of ^qthe bread of the land, that you shall offer up a heave offering to the Lord. ^20rYou shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground meal as a heave offering; as ^sa heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up. ²¹Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to the Lord a heave offering throughout your generations.

Laws Concerning Unintentional Sin

^22t‘If you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses—²³all that the Lord has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day the Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations—²⁴then it will be, ^uif it is unintentionally committed, ⁴without the knowledge of the congregation, that the whole congregation shall offer one young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the Lord, ^vwith its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and ^wone kid of the goats as a sin offering. ^25xSo the priest shall make atonement for the whole congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was unintentional; they shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their unintended sin. ²⁶It shall be forgiven the whole congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger who dwells among them, because all the people did it unintentionally.

²⁷‘And ^yif a person sins unintentionally, then he shall bring a female goat in its first year as a sin offering. ^28zSo the priest shall make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally, when he sins unintentionally before the Lord, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. ^29aYou shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel and for the stranger who dwells among them.

Law Concerning Presumptuous Sin

^30b‘But the person who does anything ⁵presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one ⁶brings reproach on the Lord, and he shall be ⁷cut off from among his people. ³¹Because he has ^cdespised the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his ⁸guilt shall be upon him.’ ”

Penalty for Violating the Sabbath

³²Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, ^dthey found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. ³³And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. ³⁴They put him ^eunder guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him.

³⁵Then the Lord said to Moses, ^f“The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall ^gstone him with stones outside the camp.” ³⁶So, as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.

Tassels on Garments

³⁷Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁸“Speak to the children of Israel: Tell ^hthem to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. ³⁹And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and ⁱremember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you ^jmay not ^kfollow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined, ⁴⁰and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be ^lholy for your God. ⁴¹I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”