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Numbers 15
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Verse 1. Then the LORD said to Moses,
Verse 2. “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home
Verse 3. and you present a food offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—
Verse 4. then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.
Verse 5. With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.
Verse 6. With a ram you are to prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of olive oil,
Verse 7. and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Verse 8. When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,
Verse 9. present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil.
Verse 10. Also present half a hin of wine as a drink offering. It is a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Verse 11. This is to be done for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat.
Verse 12. This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.
Verse 13. Everyone who is native-born shall prepare these things in this way when he presents a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Verse 14. And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he is to do exactly as you do.
Verse 15. The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.
Verse 16. The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”
Verse 17. Then the LORD said to Moses,
Verse 18. “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you
Verse 19. and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.
Verse 20. From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.
Verse 21. Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.
Verse 22. Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—
Verse 23. all that the LORD has commanded you through Moses from the day the LORD gave them and continuing through the generations to come—
Verse 24. and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, 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.
Verse 25. The priest is to make atonement for the whole congregation of Israel, so that they may be forgiven; for the sin was unintentional and they have brought to the LORD a food offering and a sin offering, presented before the LORD for their unintentional sin.
Verse 26. Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.
Verse 27. Also, if one person sins unintentionally, he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.
Verse 28. And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the person who erred by sinning unintentionally; and when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven.
Verse 29. You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.
Verse 30. But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.
Verse 31. He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”
Verse 32. While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
Verse 33. Those who found the man gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation,
Verse 34. and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.
Verse 35. And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”
Verse 36. So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Verse 37. And the LORD said to Moses,
Verse 38. “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.
Verse 39. These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
Verse 40. Then you will remember and obey all My commandments, and you will be holy to your God.
Verse 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.”