15Numbers 15

Laws about Sacrifice

1The Lord gave MosesSelect Numbers 15:1

2the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them.Select Numbers 15:2

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.Select Numbers 15:3

5Whoever 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.Select Numbers 15:5

6When a ram is offered, 4 pounds of flour mixed with 3 pints of olive oil are to be presented as a grain offering,Select Numbers 15:6

7together with 3 pints of wine. The odor of these sacrifices is pleasing to the Lord.Select Numbers 15:7

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,Select Numbers 15:8

9a grain offering of 6 pounds of flour mixed with 4 pints of olive oil is to be presented,Select Numbers 15:9

10together with 4 pints of wine. The odor of this sacrifice is pleasing to the Lord.Select Numbers 15:10

11That is what shall be offered with each bull, ram, sheep, or goat.Select Numbers 15:11

12When more than one animal is offered, the accompanying offering is to be increased proportionately.Select Numbers 15:12

13All native Israelites are to do this when they present a food offering, an odor pleasing to the Lord.Select Numbers 15:13

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.Select Numbers 15:14

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;Select Numbers 15:15

16the same laws and regulations apply to you and to them.Select Numbers 15:16

17The Lord gave MosesSelect Numbers 15:17

18the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them.Select Numbers 15:18

19When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to the Lord.Select Numbers 15:19

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.Select Numbers 15:20

21For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to the Lord from the bread you bake.Select Numbers 15:21

22But suppose someone unintentionally fails to keep some of these regulations which the Lord has given Moses.Select Numbers 15:22

23And suppose that in the future the community fails to do everything that the Lord commanded through Moses.Select Numbers 15:23

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.Select Numbers 15:24

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.Select Numbers 15:25

26The whole community of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven, because everyone was involved in the mistake.Select Numbers 15:26

27If any of you sin unintentionally, you are to offer a one-year-old female goat as a sin offering.Select Numbers 15:27

28At the altar the priest shall perform the ritual of purification to purify you from your sin, and you will be forgiven.Select Numbers 15:28

29The same regulation applies to all who unintentionally commit a sin, whether they are native Israelites or resident foreigners.Select Numbers 15:29

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,Select Numbers 15:30

31because they have rejected what the Lord said and have deliberately broken one of his commands. They are responsible for their own death.Select Numbers 15:31

The Man Who Broke the Sabbath

32Once, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath.Select Numbers 15:32

33He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community,Select Numbers 15:33

34and was put under guard, because it was not clear what should be done with him.Select Numbers 15:34

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.”Select Numbers 15:35

36So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded.Select Numbers 15:36

Rules about Tassels

37The Lord commanded MosesSelect Numbers 15:37

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.Select Numbers 15:38

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.Select Numbers 15:39

40The tassels will remind you to keep all my commands, and you will belong completely to me.Select Numbers 15:40

41I am the Lord your God; I brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord.”Select Numbers 15:41