Numbers 15
15
Laws about Sacrifice
1The LORD gave Moses 2the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them. 3A bull, a ram, a sheep, or a goat may be presented to the LORD as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice in fulfilment of a vow or as a freewill offering or as an offering at your regular religious festivals; the smell of these food offerings is pleasing to the LORD. 4-5Whoever presents a sheep or a goat as a burnt offering to the LORD is to bring with each animal a kilogramme of flour mixed with one litre of olive oil as a grain offering, together with one litre of wine. 6When a ram is offered, two kilogrammes of flour mixed with 1.5 litres of olive oil are to be presented as a grain offering, 7together with 1.5 litres of wine. The smell of these sacrifices is pleasing to the LORD. 8When a bull is offered to the LORD as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice in fulfilment of a vow or as a fellowship offering, 9a grain offering of three kilogrammes of flour mixed with two litres of olive oil is to be presented, 10together with two litres of wine. The smell of this sacrifice is pleasing to the LORD.
11That is what shall be offered with each bull, ram, sheep, or goat. 12When more than one animal is offered, the accompanying offering is to be increased proportionately. 13All native Israelites are to do this when they present a food offering, a smell pleasing to the LORD. 14And if at any time foreigners living among you, whether on a temporary or a permanent basis, make a food offering, a smell that pleases the LORD, they are to observe the same regulations. 15For all time to come, the same#15.15 Some ancient translations the same; Hebrew the congregation the same. rules are binding on you and on the foreigners who live among you. You and they are alike in the LORD's sight; 16#Lev 24.22the same laws and regulations apply to you and to them.
17The LORD gave Moses 18the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them. 19When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to the LORD. 20When you bake bread, the first loaf of the first bread made from the new corn is to be presented as a special contribution to the LORD. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the corn you thresh. 21For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to the LORD from the bread you bake.
22But suppose someone unintentionally fails to keep some of these regulations which the LORD has given Moses. 23And suppose that in the future the community fails to do everything that the LORD commanded through Moses. 24If the mistake was made because of the ignorance of the community, they are to offer a bull as a burnt offering, a smell that pleases the LORD, with the proper grain offering and wine offering. In addition, they are to offer a male goat as a sin offering. 25The priest shall perform the ritual of purification for the community, and they will be forgiven, because the mistake was unintentional and they brought their sin offering as a food offering to the LORD. 26The whole community of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven, because everyone was involved in the mistake.
27 #
Lev 4.27–31
If an individual sins unintentionally, he is to offer a one-year-old female goat as a sin offering. 28At the altar the priest shall perform the ritual of purification to purify the person from his sin, and he will be forgiven. 29The same regulation applies to all who unintentionally commit a sin, whether they are native Israelites or resident foreigners.
30But any person who sins deliberately, whether he is a native or a foreigner, is guilty of treating the LORD with contempt, and he shall be put to death, 31because he has rejected what the LORD said and has deliberately broken one of his commands. He is responsible for his own death.
The Man who Broke the Sabbath
32Once, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath. 33He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community, 34and was put under guard, because it was not clear what should be done with him. 35Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must be put to death; the whole community is to stone him to death outside the camp.” 36So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded.
Rules about Tassels
37The LORD commanded Moses 38#Deut 22.12to say to the people of Israel: “Make tassels on the corners of your garments and put a blue cord on each tassel. You are to do this for all time to come. 39The tassels will serve as reminders, and each time you see them you will remember all my commands and obey them; then you will not turn away from me and follow your own wishes and desires. 40The tassels will remind you to keep all my commands, and you will belong completely to me. 41I am the LORD your God; I brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD.”
Currently Selected:
Numbers 15: GNBDK
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
Good News Bible with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.
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,#Lv 14:34 3and you make a food offering#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,#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,#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#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.#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.#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.#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.”#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#Neh 10:37; Ezk 44:30 as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing floor.#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#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,#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,#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.#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.#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.”#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#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#Jr 3:17; 9:14; 16:12; 18:12; Ezk 14:7; 20:16; 33:31 and your own eyes.#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.”#Ex 29:46; Lv 19:36; 25:38; 26:13
Currently Selected:
:
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
© 2017 Holman Bible Publishers