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Chapter 15

Numbers · Moses

¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye are come into the land of your habitation, which I give to you, ³ and thou wilt offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, a whole burnt offering or a meat offering to perform a vow, or a freewill offering, or to offer in your feasts a sacrifice of sweet savor to the Lord, whether of the herd or the flock: ⁴ then he that offers his gift to the Lord shall bring a meat offering of fine flour, a tenth part of an ephah mingled with oil, even with the fourth part of a hin. ⁵ And for a drink offering ye shall offer the fourth part of a hin on the whole burnt offering, or on the meat offering: for every lamb thou shalt offer so much, as a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savor to the Lord. ⁶ And for a ram, when ye offer it as a whole burnt offering or as a sacrifice, thou shalt prepare as a meat offering two tenths of fine flour mingled with oil, the third part of a hin. ⁷ And ye shall offer for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord wine for a drink offering, the third part of a hin.

Num 15:1-7

⁸ And if ye sacrifice [a bullock] from the herd for a whole burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to perform a vow or a peace offering to the Lord, ⁹ then [the worshiper] shall offer upon the calf a meat offering, three tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, [even] the half of a hin. ¹⁰ And wine for a drink offering the half of a hin, a sacrifice for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.

Num 15:8-10

¹¹ Thus shalt thou do to one calf or to one ram, or to one lamb of the sheep or kid of the goats. ¹² According to the number of what ye shall offer, so shall ye do to each one, according to their number.

Num 15:11-12

¹³ Every native of the country shall do thus to offer such things as sacrifices for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord. ¹⁴ And if there should be a stranger among you in your land, or one who should be born to you among your generations, and he will offer a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savor to the Lord—as ye do, so the [whole] congregation shall offer to the Lord.

Num 15:13-14

¹⁵ There shall be one law for you and for the strangers abiding among you, a perpetual law for your generations: as ye [are], so shall the stranger be before the Lord. ¹⁶ There shall be one law and one ordinance for you, and for the stranger that abides among you.

Num 15:15-16

¹⁷ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸ Speak to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye are entering into the land, into which I bring you, ¹⁹ then it shall come to pass, when ye shall eat of the bread of the land, ye shall separate a wave offering, a special offering to the Lord, the firstfruits of your dough. ²⁰ Ye shall offer your bread a heave offering: as a heave offering from the threshing floor, so shall ye separate it, ²¹ even the firstfruits of your dough, and ye shall give the Lord a heave offering throughout your generations.

Num 15:17-21

²² But whensoever ye shall transgress, and not perform all these commands, which the Lord spoke to Moses; ²³ as the Lord appointed you by the hand of Moses, from the day which the Lord appointed you and forward throughout your generations, ²⁴ then it shall come to pass, if a trespass be committed unwillingly, unknown to the congregation, then shall all the congregation offer a calf of the herd without blemish for a whole burnt offering of sweet savor to the Lord, and its meat offering and its drink offering according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. ²⁵ And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and [the trespass] shall be forgiven them, because it is involuntary; and they have brought their gift, a burnt offering to the Lord for their trespass before the Lord, even for their involuntary sins. ²⁶ And it shall be forgiven as respects all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that is abiding among you, because [it is] involuntary to all the people.

Num 15:22-26

²⁷ And if one soul sin unwillingly, he shall bring one she-goat of a year old for a sin offering. ²⁸ And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that committed the trespass unwillingly, and that sinned unwillingly before the Lord, to make atonement for him. ²⁹ There shall be one law for the native among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that abides among them, whosoever shall commit a trespass unwillingly.

Num 15:27-29

³⁰ And whatever soul either of the natives or of the strangers shall do anything with a presumptuous hand, he will provoke God; that soul shall be cut off from his people, ³¹ for he has set at nought the word of the Lord and broken his commands: that soul shall be utterly destroyed, his sin [is] upon him.

Num 15:30-31

³² And the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. ³³ And they who found him gathering sticks on the Sabbath day brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel. ³⁴ And they placed him in custody, for they did not determine what they should do to him. ³⁵ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Let the man be by all means put to death: [do ye] all the congregation, stone him with stones. ³⁶ And all the congregation brought him forth out of the camp; and all the congregation stoned him with stones outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Num 15:32-36

³⁷ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁸ Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them; and let them make for themselves fringes upon the borders of their garments throughout their generations: and ye shall put upon the fringes of the borders a lace of blue. ³⁹ And it shall be on your fringes, and ye shall look on them, and ye shall remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them: and ye shall not turn back after your imaginations, and after [the sight of your] eyes in the things after which ye go a-whoring; ⁴⁰ that ye may remember and perform all my commands, and ye shall be holy unto your God. ⁴¹ I [am] the Lord your God that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I [am] the Lord your God.

Num 15:37-41