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Numbers 15

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 fulfillment of a vow or as a freewill offering or as an offering at your regular religious festivals; the odor of these food offerings is pleasing to the LORD.

⁴Whoever presents a sheep or a goat as a burnt offering to the LORD is to bring with each animal 2 pounds of flour mixed with 2 pints of olive oil as a grain offering, together with 2 pints of wine.

⁶When a ram is offered, 4 pounds of flour mixed with 3 pints of olive oil are to be presented as a grain offering,

⁷together with 3 pints of wine. The odor 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 fulfillment of a vow or as a fellowship offering,

⁹a grain offering of 6 pounds of flour mixed with 4 pints of olive oil is to be presented,

¹⁰together with 4 pints of wine. The odor 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, an odor 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, an odor that pleases the LORD, they are to observe the same regulations.

¹⁵For all time to come, 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;

¹⁶the 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 grain 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 grain 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, an odor 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.

²⁷If any of you sin unintentionally, you are 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 you from your sin, and you will be forgiven.

²⁹The same regulation applies to all who unintentionally commit a sin, whether they are native Israelites or resident foreigners.

³⁰But any who sin deliberately, whether they are natives or foreigners, are guilty of treating the LORD with contempt, and they shall be put to death,

³¹because they have rejected what the LORD said and have deliberately broken one of his commands. They are responsible for their own death.

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.

³⁷The LORD commanded Moses

³⁸to 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."