The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Numbers 15
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell
them, ‘When you have come into the land
of your habitations, which I give to you,
3 and will make an offering by fire to
Yahweh—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to
accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering,
or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant
aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the
flock—
4 then he who offers his offering shall
offer to Yahweh a meal offering of one
tenth of an ephah† of fine flour mixed with
one fourth of a hin‡ of oil.
5 You shall prepare wine for the drink
offering, one fourthof ahin, withthe burnt
offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
6 “ ‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a
meal offering two tenths of an ephah§ of
fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin
of oil;
7 and for the drink offering you shall
offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a
pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
8 When you prepare a bull for a burnt
offering or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a
vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh,
9 then he shall offer with the bull a meal
offering ofthree tenths of an ephah† of fine
flour mixed with half a hin of oil;
10 and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made
by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
11 Thus it shall be done for each bull, for
each ram, for each of the male lambs, or of
the young goats.
12 According to the number that you
shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone
according to their number.
13 “ ‘All who are native-born shall do
these things in this way, in offering an
offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma
to Yahweh.
14 If a stranger lives as a foreigner
with you, or whoever may be among you
throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant
aroma to Yahweh, as you do, so he shall do.
15 For the assembly, there shall be one
statute for you and for the stranger who
lives as a foreigner, a statute forever
throughout your generations. As you are,
so the foreigner shall be before Yahweh.
16 One law and one ordinance shall be
for you and for the stranger who lives as a
foreigner with you.’ ”
17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
18 “Speak to the children of Israel, and
tell them, ‘When you come into the land
where I bring you,
19 thenit shall be that whenyoueat ofthe
bread ofthe land, you shall offer up a wave
offering to Yahweh.
20 Of the first of your dough you shall
offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the
wave offering ofthe threshing floor, so you
shall heave it.
21 Of the first of your dough, you shall
give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
22 “ ‘When you err, and don’t observe all
these commandments which Yahweh has
spoken to Moses—
23 even all that Yahweh has commanded
you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh
gave commandment and onward throughout your generations—
24 then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the
congregation, that all the congregation shall
offer one young bull for a burnt offering,
for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, with its
meal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male
goat for a sin offering.
25 The priest shall make atonement for
all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was
an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh,
and their sin offering before Yahweh, for
their error.
26 All the congregation of the children
of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the
stranger who lives as a foreigner among
them; for with regard to all the people, it
was done unwittingly.
27 “ ‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he
shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin
offering.
28 The priest shall make atonement for
the soul who errs whenhe sins unwittingly
before Yahweh. He shall make atonement
for him; and he shall be forgiven.
29 You shall have one law for him who
does anything unwittingly, for him who is
native-born among the children of Israel,
and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.
30 “ ‘But the soul who does anything with
ahighhand, whetherhe isnative-bornor a
foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul
shall be cut off from among his people.
31 Because he has despised Yahweh’s
word, and has broken his commandment,
that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’ ”
32 While the children of Israel were in
the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
33 Those who found him gathering sticks
brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all
the congregation.
34 They put him in custody, because it
had not been declared what should be
done to him.
35 Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall
surelybeputtodeath. Allthe congregation
shall stone him with stones outside of the
camp.”
36 All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to
death with stones, as Yahweh commanded
Moses.
37 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
38 “Speak to the children of Israel, and
tell them that they should make themselves fringes‡ on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and
that they put on the fringe§ of each border
a cord of blue.
39 It shall be to you for a fringe,† that
youmay see it, andremember allYahweh’s
commandments, and do them; and that
you don’t follow your own heart and your
own eyes, after which you used to play the
prostitute;
40 so that you may remember and do all
my commandments, and be holy to your
God.
41 I am Yahweh your God, who brought
youout ofthe landofEgypt,tobe your God:
I am Yahweh your God.”