NumbersChapter 15

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¹Then the LORD said to Moses, ²"Speak to the Israelites. Tell them this: You will enter the land I am giving you as a home. ³Then when you bring the LORD a food offering from your herd or flock, to make a smell that pleases the LORD, here is what to do. It may be a burnt offering or a sacrifice. It may be for a special promise, a freewill offering, or a set feast. ⁴The one who brings his offering to the LORD must also bring a grain offering. It must be two quarts of fine flour mixed with one quart of olive oil.a ⁵With each lamb for the burnt offering or sacrifice, prepare one quart of wine as a drink offering.b ⁶With a ram, prepare a grain offering of four quarts of fine flour mixed with one and a quarter quarts of olive oil.c ⁷Also give one and a quarter quarts of wine as a drink offering. Its smell will please the LORD.d ⁸When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to keep a promise or as a peace offering to the LORD, ⁹bring a grain offering with the bull. It must be six quarts of fine flour mixed with two quarts of olive oil.e ¹⁰Also bring two quarts of wine as a drink offering. It is a food offering, and its smell will please the LORD.f ¹¹Do this for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat. ¹²Prepare each one this way, no matter how many you bring. ¹³Everyone born an Israelite must do these things this way. Do it when you bring a food offering with a smell that pleases the LORD. ¹⁴For all time to come, a foreigner may live with you, or someone else may be among you. If he wants to bring a food offering with a smell that pleases the LORD, he must do it just the way you do. ¹⁵The community must have the same rule for you and for the foreigner who lives with you. This rule lasts forever, for all your children's children. You and the foreigner are the same before the LORD. ¹⁶The same law and the same rule will be for you and for the foreigner who lives with you." ¹⁷Then the LORD said to Moses, ¹⁸"Speak to the Israelites. Tell them this: You will enter the land I am bringing you to. ¹⁹When you eat the food of that land, you must lift up an offering to the LORD. ²⁰Take a loaf from the first of your dough and lift it up as a gift. Offer it the same way as an offering from the threshing floor. ²¹For all time to come, give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough. ²²Suppose you go wrong without meaning to. You don't obey all these commands the LORD gave Moses. ²³These are all the things the LORD has commanded you through Moses. They are from the day the LORD gave them, and they go on for all time to come. ²⁴If the community did it without meaning to and without knowing it, here is what to do. The whole community must prepare one young bull as a burnt offering. Its smell will please the LORD. Bring it with its grain offering and drink offering, as the rule says. Also bring one male goat as a sin offering. ²⁵The priest must make atonement for the whole community of Israel. Then they will be forgiven, because the sin was not on purpose. They have brought the LORD a food offering and a sin offering for the sin they did without meaning to. ²⁶So the whole community of Israel will be forgiven. The foreigners living among them will be forgiven too, because all the people did it without meaning to. ²⁷Or suppose one person sins without meaning to. He must bring a female goat a year old as a sin offering. ²⁸The priest must make atonement before the LORD for the person who sinned by mistake. When atonement is made for him, he will be forgiven. ²⁹You must have the same law for anyone who sins by mistake. It does not matter if he was born an Israelite or is a foreigner living among you. ³⁰But anyone who sins on purpose, whether born an Israelite or a foreigner, speaks against the LORD with contempt. That person must be cut off from his people. ³¹He must surely be cut off, because he has looked down on the word of the LORD and broken his command. His guilt stays on him." ³²While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. ³³The people who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community. ³⁴No one had told them yet what should be done to him. So they kept him under guard. ³⁵Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must be put to death. The whole community must stone him outside the camp." ³⁶So the whole community took the man outside the camp. They stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses. ³⁷And the LORD said to Moses, ³⁸"Speak to the Israelites. Tell them to make tassels for the corners of their clothes, for all time to come. They must put a blue cord on each tassel. ³⁹You will have these tassels to look at. Then you will remember all the LORD's commands and obey them. You will not chase after what your own heart and eyes want. Doing that would make you unfaithful, like a prostitute. ⁴⁰Then you will remember and obey all my commands. You will be holy to your God. ⁴¹I am the LORD your God. I brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God."