Numbers 15

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Laws about Offerings

¹Then the LORD said to Moses,

¹And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

²“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home

²“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When you enter into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you,

³and 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—

³and you make a fire offering to YHWH, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, or in your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to YHWH, from the herd or from the flock,

⁴then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour^a mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.^b

⁴then he who is bringing near his offering to YHWH shall bring a grain offering of fine flour, a tenth of an ephah, mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil.

⁵With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.

⁵And wine as a drink offering, a fourth of a hin you shall prepare with the burnt offering or the sacrifice, for the one lamb.

⁶With a ram you are to prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah^a of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of olive oil,^b

⁶Or for a ram you shall prepare as a grain offering fine flour, two tenths of an ephah, mixed with the oil, a third of a hin.

⁷and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

⁷And wine as a drink offering, a third of a hin, you shall offer, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

⁸When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,

⁸And when you prepare a son of the herd as a burnt offering, or as a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as peace offerings to YHWH,

⁹present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour^a mixed with half a hin of olive oil.^b

⁹then shall be offered with a son of the herd a grain offering of fine flour three tenths of an ephah, mixed with the oil, half a hin.

¹⁰Also present half a hin of wine as a drink offering. It is a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

¹⁰And you shall bring wine as the drink offering, and half a hin as a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

¹¹This is to be done for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat.

¹¹Thus it shall be done for one bull, or for one ram, or for a lamb of the sheep or young goat.

¹²This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.

¹²By the number that you prepare, so you shall do for each one according to their number.

¹³Everyone who is native-born shall prepare these things in this way when he presents a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

¹³All the native shall do in this manner these things in presenting a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

¹⁴And 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.

¹⁴And if a sojourner sojourns with you, or whoever is in your midst throughout your generations, and he would present a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH—as you do, so shall he do.

¹⁵The 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.

¹⁵One ordinance is for you of the assembly and for the sojourner who is sojourning, an everlasting ordinance throughout your generations. As you are, shall be as the sojourner before the face of YHWH.

¹⁶The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”

¹⁶One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the sojourner who is sojourning with you.”

¹⁷Then the LORD said to Moses,

¹⁷And YHWH again spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁸“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you

¹⁸“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When you come into the land to which I bring you,

¹⁹and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.

¹⁹then it will be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a contribution to YHWH.

²⁰From 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.

²⁰From the first of your ground meal you shall offer up a cake as a contribution; as a contribution of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up.

²¹Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.

²¹Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to YHWH a contribution throughout your generations.

Offerings for Unintentional Sins

²²Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—

²²And if you err and do not observe all these commandments that YHWH has spoken to Moses,

²³all that the LORD has commanded you through Moses from the day the LORD gave them and continuing through the generations to come—

²³all that YHWH has commanded to you by the hand of Moses, from the day that YHWH commanded and onward throughout your generations—

²⁴and 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.

²⁴then it will be, if away from the eyes of the congregation it is committed in error, that all the congregation shall offer one bull, a son of the herd, as a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to YHWH, and with its grain offering and its drink offering according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

²⁵The 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.

²⁵And the priest shall make atonement upon the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, and it shall be forgiven for them, for it was an error. And they shall bring their offerings, a fire offering to YHWH, and their sin offering, before the face of YHWH for their error.

²⁶Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.

²⁶And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, because all the people did it in error.

²⁷Also, if one person sins unintentionally, he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.

²⁷And if one person sins in error, he shall bring a female goat, a daughter of a year, as a sin offering.

²⁸And 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.

²⁸And the priest shall make atonement upon the soul, the one who is erring when he sins in error before the face of YHWH, to make atonement upon him, and it shall be forgiven for him.

²⁹You 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.

²⁹The native among the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, there shall be one law for you, for the one who sins in error.

³⁰But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.

³⁰And the soul who does beguile by hand, from the native and from the sojourner, he reviles YHWH; that person shall be cut off from among his people.

³¹He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”

³¹Because he has despised the word of YHWH and has broken His commandment, that person shall surely be cut off; his guilt is upon him.”

A Sabbath-Breaker Stoned

³²While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

³²And while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

³³Those who found the man gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation,

³³And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.

³⁴and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.

³⁴And they put him under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him.

³⁵And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”

³⁵And YHWH said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”

³⁶So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³⁶And all the congregation brought him to the outside of the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

The Law of Tassels

³⁷And the LORD said to Moses,

³⁷And YHWH again spoke to Moses, saying,

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.

³⁸“Speak to the sons of Israel and tell them to make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put in the tassels of the corners a blue thread.

³⁹These 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.

³⁹And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of YHWH and do them, and that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after them to which you are inclined to prostitute yourselves.

⁴⁰Then you will remember and obey all My commandments, and you will be holy to your God.

⁴⁰Then you will remember and do all My commandments, and you shall be holy unto 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.”

⁴¹I am YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am YHWH your God.”