Numbers 15:17–36

¹⁷The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: After you come into the land to which I am bringing you,^{* 19}whenever you eat of the bread of the land you shall present a donation to the Lord.^{* 20}From your first batch of dough you shall present a loaf as a donation; you shall present it just as you present a donation from the threshing floor.^{* 21}Throughout your generations you shall give to the Lord a donation from the first of your batch of dough.

²²“But if you unintentionally fail to observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses^*—²³everything that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day the Lord gave commandment and thereafter, throughout your generations—²⁴then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge^e of the congregation, the whole congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the Lord, together with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a purification offering.^{* 25}The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the Israelites, and they shall be forgiven; it was unintentional, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire^f to the Lord, and their purification offering before the Lord, for their error.^{* 26}All the congregation of the Israelites shall be forgiven, as well as the aliens residing among you, because the whole people was involved in the error.

²⁷“An individual who sins unintentionally shall present a female goat a year old for a purification offering.^{* 28}And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the one who commits an error, when it is unintentional, to make atonement for the person, who then shall be forgiven.^{* 29}For both the native among the Israelites and the alien residing among you, you shall have the same law for anyone who acts in error.^{* 30}But whoever acts high-handedly, whether native-born or an alien, affronts the Lord and shall be cut off from among the people. ³¹Because of having despised the word of the Lord and broken his commandment, such a person shall be utterly cut off and bear the guilt.”^*

Penalty for Violating the Sabbath

³²When the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.^{* 33}Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation. ³⁴They put him in custody because it was not clear what should be done to him.^{* 35}Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him outside the camp.”^{* 36}The whole congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.