Numbers 15
15
Laws about Offerings
1The Lord instructed Moses, 2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you to settle in, # 15:2 Lv 14:34 3and you make a food offering # 15:3 Ex 29:18; Lv 1:9; 21:6; Nm 15:10,13–14,25; 18:17; 28:2; Dt 18:1 to the Lord from the herd or flock — either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow, # 15:3 Lv 22:21; 27:2; Nm 15:8 or as a freewill offering, or at your appointed festivals — to produce a pleasing aroma for the Lord, # 15:3 Lv 1:9,13,17 4the one presenting his offering to the Lord is also to present a grain offering of two quarts # 15:4 Lit a tenth (of an ephah) of fine flour mixed with a quart # 15:4 Lit a fourth hin, also in v. 5 of oil. 5Prepare a quart of wine as a drink offering # 15:5 Ex 29:40; Lv 23:13 with the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb.
6“If you prepare a grain offering with a ram, it is to be four quarts # 15:6 Lit two-tenths (of an ephah) of fine flour mixed with a third of a gallon # 15:6 Lit a third hin, also in v. 7 of oil. # 15:6 Lv 23:13; Nm 28:9,12 7Also present a third of a gallon of wine for a drink offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
8“If you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow, or as a fellowship offering to the Lord, 9a grain offering of six quarts # 15:9 Lit three-tenths (of an ephah) of fine flour mixed with two quarts # 15:9 Lit a half hin, also in v. 10 of oil is to be presented with the bull. # 15:9 Nm 28:12 10Also present two quarts of wine as a drink offering. It is a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 11This is to be done for each ox, ram, lamb, or goat. 12This is how you are to prepare each of them, no matter how many.
13“Every Israelite is to prepare these things in this way when he presents a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 14When an alien resides with you or someone else is among you and wants to prepare a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he is to do exactly as you do throughout your generations. 15The assembly is to have the same statute for both you and the resident alien as a permanent statute throughout your generations. # 15:15 Ex 27:21; Lv 3:17; 7:36; 10:9; 23:14,31,41; 24:3; Nm 10:8; 18:23 You and the alien will be alike before the Lord. 16The same law and the same ordinance will apply to both you and the alien who resides with you.” # 15:16 Ex 12:19,49; Lv 16:29–31; 17:8–16; Nm 9:14; 15:26,29; 19:10; 35:15
17The Lord instructed Moses, 18“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land where I am bringing you, 19you are to offer a contribution to the Lord when you eat from the food of the land. 20You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough # 15:20 Neh 10:37; Ezk 44:30 as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing floor. # 15:20 Lv 2:14 21Throughout your generations, you are to give the Lord a contribution from the first batch of your dough.
22“When you sin unintentionally and do not obey all these commands that the Lord spoke to Moses # 15:22 Lv 4:2 — 23all that the Lord has commanded you through Moses, from the day the Lord issued the commands and onward throughout your generations — 24and if it was done unintentionally without the community’s awareness, the entire community is to prepare one young bull for a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering. 25The priest will then make atonement for the entire Israelite community so that they may be forgiven, # 15:25 Lv 4:20,26,31,35; 19:20; Jr 5:1 for the sin was unintentional. They are to bring their offering, a food offering to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their unintentional sin. 26The entire Israelite community and the alien who resides among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.
27“If one person sins unintentionally, # 15:27 Lv 4:27 he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering. 28The priest will then make atonement before the Lord on behalf of the person who acts in error sinning unintentionally, and when he makes atonement for him, he will be forgiven. 29You are to have the same law for the person who acts in error, whether he is an Israelite or an alien who resides among you.
30“But the person who acts defiantly, # 15:30 Lit with a high hand whether native or resident alien, blasphemes the Lord. # 15:30 2Kg 19:6,22; Is 37:6,23; Ezk 20:27 That person is to be cut off from his people. 31He will certainly be cut off, because he has despised the Lord’s word and broken his command; his guilt remains on him.”
Sabbath Violation
32While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. # 15:32 Ex 35:2–3 33Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the entire community. 34They placed him in custody because it had not been decided what should be done to him. 35Then the Lord told Moses, “The man is to be put to death. The entire community is to stone him outside the camp.” # 15:35 Lv 20:27; 24:14,23; Nm 14:10; Jos 7:25; Ezk 16:40; Mt 21:35; Ac 14:19; 2Co 11:25; Heb 11:37; 12:20 36So the entire community brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Tassels for Remembrance
37The Lord said to Moses, 38“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout their generations they are to make tassels # 15:38 Dt 22:12; Mt 9:20; 14:36; 23:5 for the corners of their garments, and put a blue cord on the tassel at each corner. 39These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the Lord’s commands and obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart # 15:39 Jr 3:17; 9:14; 16:12; 18:12; Ezk 14:7; 20:16; 33:31 and your own eyes. # 15:39 Jb 31:7 40This way you will remember and obey all my commands and be holy to 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.” # 15:41 Ex 29:46; Lv 19:36; 25:38; 26:13
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Numbers 15
15
Laws and punishments
Laws about sacrifices
1The LORD told Moses 2to give the Israelites the following laws about offering sacrifices:
3Bulls or rams or goats#15.3 goats: See the note at 7.12-83. are the animals that you may burn on the altar as sacrifices to please me.#15.3 sacrifices to please me: See the note at 6.11. You may also offer sacrifices voluntarily or because you made a promise, or because they are part of your regular religious ceremonies. The smell of the smoke from these sacrifices is pleasing to me.
4-5If you sacrifice a young ram or goat, you must also offer a kilogramme of your finest flour mixed with a litre of olive oil as a grain sacrifice. A litre of wine must also be poured on the altar.
6-7And if the animal is a full-grown ram, you must offer two kilogrammes of flour mixed with one and a half litres of olive oil. One and a half litres of wine must also be poured on the altar. The smell of this smoke is pleasing to me.
8If a bull is offered as a sacrifice to please me or to ask my blessing,#15.8 to ask my blessing: See the note at 6.14. 9you must offer three kilogrammes of flour mixed with two litres of olive oil. 10Two litres of wine must also be poured on the altar. The smell of this smoke is pleasing to me.
11-13If you are a native Israelite, you must obey these rules each time you offer a bull, a ram, or a goat as a sacrifice. 14And the foreigners who live among you must also follow these rules. 15-16This law will never change. I am the LORD, and I consider all people the same, whether they are Israelites or foreigners living among you.#Lv 24.22.
17-19When you eat food in the land that I am giving you, remember to set aside some of it as an offering to me. 20From the first batch of bread dough that you make after each new grain harvest, make a loaf of bread and offer it to me, just as you offer grain. 21All your descendants must follow this law and offer part of the first batch of bread dough.
22-23The LORD also told Moses to tell the people what must be done if they ever disobey his laws:
24If all of you disobey one of my laws without meaning to, you must offer a bull as a sacrifice to please me, together with a grain sacrifice, a wine offering, and a goat as a sacrifice for sin. 25Then the priest will pray and ask me to forgive you. And since you did not mean to do wrong, and you offered sacrifices, 26the sin of everyone—both Israelites and foreigners among you—will be forgiven.
27But if one of you does wrong without meaning to, you must sacrifice a year-old female goat as a sacrifice for sin.#Lv 4.27-31. 28The priest will then ask me to forgive you, and your sin will be forgiven.
29The law will be the same for anyone who does wrong without meaning to, whether an Israelite or a foreigner living among you.
30-31But if one of you does wrong on purpose, whether Israelite or foreigner, you have sinned against me by disobeying my laws. You will be sent away and will no longer live among the people of Israel.
A man put to death for gathering firewood on the Sabbath
32Once, while the Israelites were travelling through the desert, a man was caught gathering firewood on the Sabbath.#15.32 a man…Sabbath: No work was to be done on the Sabbath (see Exodus 31.12-17). 33He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the rest of the community. 34But no one knew what to do with him, so he was not allowed to leave.
35Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the people to take that man outside the camp and stone him to death!” 36So he was killed, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
The tassels on the people's clothes
37The LORD told Moses 38to say to the people of Israel, “Sew tassels on to the bottom edge of your clothes and tie a purple string to each tassel.#Dt 22.12. 39-40These will remind you that you must obey my laws and teachings. And when you do, you will be dedicated to me and won't follow your own sinful desires. 41I am the LORD your God who led you out of Egypt.”
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