Numbers
15
- The LORD said to Moses,
- "Speak to the Israelites and say to
them: 'After you enter the land I am giving you as a home
- and you present to the LORD offerings made
by fire, from the herd or the flock, as an aroma pleasing to the LORD -- whether
burnt offerings or sacrifices, for special vows or freewill offerings or festival
offerings --
- then the one who brings his offering shall
present to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour
mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil.
- With each lamb for the burnt offering or
the sacrifice, prepare a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
- "'With a ram prepare a grain offering
of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil,
- and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
Offer it as an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
- "'When you prepare a young bull as a
burnt offering or sacrifice, for a special vow or a fellowship offering to
the LORD,
- bring with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths
of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil.
- Also bring half a hin of wine as a drink
offering. It will be an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
- Each bull or ram, each lamb or young goat,
is to be prepared in this manner.
- Do this for each one, for as many as you
prepare.
- "'Everyone who is native-born must do
these things in this way when he brings an offering made by fire as an aroma
pleasing to the LORD.
- For the generations to come, whenever an
alien or anyone else living among you presents an offering made by fire as
an aroma pleasing to the LORD, he must do exactly as you do.
- The community is to have the same rules for
you and for the alien living among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the
generations to come. You and the alien shall be the same before the LORD:
- The same laws and regulations will apply
both to you and to the alien living among you.'"
- The LORD said to Moses,
- "Speak to the Israelites and say to
them: 'When you enter the land to which I am taking you
- and you eat the food of the land, present
a portion as an offering to the LORD.
- Present a cake from the first of your ground
meal and present it as an offering from the threshing floor.
- Throughout the generations to come you are
to give this offering to the LORD from the first of your ground meal.
- "'Now if you unintentionally fail to
keep any of these commands the LORD gave Moses --
- any of the LORD'S commands to you through
him, from the day the LORD gave them and continuing through the generations
to come --
- and if this is done unintentionally without
the community being aware of it, then the whole community is to offer a young
bull for a burnt offering as an aroma pleasing to the LORD, along with its
prescribed grain offering and drink offering, and a male goat for a sin offering.
- The priest is to make atonement for the whole
Israelite community, and they will be forgiven, for it was not intentional
and they have brought to the LORD for their wrong an offering made by fire
and a sin offering.
- The whole Israelite community and the aliens
living among them will be forgiven, because all the people were involved in
the unintentional wrong.
- "'But if just one person sins unintentionally,
he must bring a year-old female goat for a sin offering.
- The priest is to make atonement before the
LORD for the one who erred by sinning unintentionally, and when atonement
has been made for him, he will be forgiven.
- One and the same law applies to everyone
who sins unintentionally, whether he is a native-born Israelite or an alien.
- "'But anyone who sins defiantly, whether
native-born or alien, blasphemes the LORD, and that person must be cut off
from his people.
- Because he has despised the LORD'S word and
broken his commands, that person must surely be cut off; his guilt remains
on him.'"
- While the Israelites were in the desert,
a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
- Those who found him gathering wood brought
him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly,
- and they kept him in custody, because it
was not clear what should be done to him.
- Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man
must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp."
- So the assembly took him outside the camp
and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.
- The LORD said to Moses,
- "Speak to the Israelites and say to
them: 'Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners
of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.
- You will have these tassels to look at and
so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them
and not prostitute yourselves by going after the lusts of your own hearts
and eyes.
- Then you will remember to obey all my commands
and will be consecrated to your God.
- I am the LORD your God, who brought you out
of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God.'"
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