Numbers 15
1 The LORD spoke to Moses:
2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: ‘When you enter the land where you will live, which I am giving you,
3 and you present an offering by fire to the LORD—whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow, as a freewill offering, or at your appointed festivals—to make a pleasing aroma to the LORD, from the herd or the flock,
4 the one presenting the offering to the LORD must also present a grain offering: two quarts of fine flour mixed with one quart of olive oil.
5 With each lamb, prepare one quart of wine as a drink offering, along with the burnt offering or sacrifice.
6 For a ram, prepare a grain offering of four quarts of fine flour mixed with one and a third quarts of olive oil.
7 Present one and a third quarts of wine as a drink offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
8 When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a fellowship offering to the LORD,
9 present with the bull a grain offering of six quarts of fine flour mixed with two quarts of olive oil.
10 Present two quarts of wine as a drink offering. It is an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
11 This is what you must do for each bull, each ram, and each lamb or goat.
12 Do this for each one, according to the number you prepare.
13 Every native-born Israelite must do these things when presenting an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
14 If a foreigner living among you, or anyone else among you in future generations, presents an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, that person must do as you do.’”
15 “‘The same rule applies to the whole community—to you and to the foreigner living among you. It is a lasting ordinance for generations to come. You and the foreigner are alike before the LORD.
16 The same law and the same rule apply to you and to the foreigner living among you.’”
17 The LORD spoke to Moses:
18 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: ‘When you enter the land where I am bringing you,
19 and you eat the food grown there, you must set aside a contribution for the LORD.
20 Set aside a loaf as a contribution from the first of your dough. Set it aside just as you set aside a contribution from the threshing floor.
21 From the first of your dough, you must give the LORD a contribution throughout your generations.
22 If you unintentionally fail to keep all these commands that the LORD gave Moses,
23 all that the LORD commanded you through Moses, from the day the LORD gave the command and onward throughout your generations—
24 if this was done unintentionally, without the community knowing, then the whole community must present a young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering as prescribed, and one male goat as a sin offering.
25 The priest will make atonement for the whole community of the Israelites, and they will be forgiven, because it was unintentional. They must bring their offering, an offering by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD for their unintentional wrongdoing.
26 The whole community of the Israelites and the foreigner living among them will be forgiven, because all the people acted unintentionally.
27 If one person sins unintentionally, that person must present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.’”
28 “‘The priest will make atonement before the LORD for the person who sinned unintentionally, making atonement for that person, and the person will be forgiven.
29 The same law applies to anyone who acts unintentionally, whether a native-born Israelite or a foreigner living among you.
30 But anyone who acts defiantly, whether native-born or foreigner, insults the LORD. That person must be cut off from among the people.
31 Because that person has despised the word of the LORD and broken his command, that person must surely be cut off; the guilt remains on them.’”
32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community.
34 They kept him in custody, because it had not been decided what should be done to him.
35 The LORD said to Moses, “The man must be put to death. The whole community must stone him outside the camp.”
36 The whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
37 The LORD said to Moses:
38 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: ‘For generations to come, make tassels on the corners of your garments, and put a blue cord on each tassel.
39 The tassels will remind you: when you see them, you will remember all the LORD’s commands and obey them. You must not follow your own heart and eyes, chasing after them as you have been unfaithful.
40 Then you will remember and obey all my commands, and you will be holy to your God.
41 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God.’”
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