Numbers 15
Good News Translation
Laws about Sacrifice
15 The Lord gave Moses 2 the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them. 3 A 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. 4-5 Whoever 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. 6 When a ram is offered, 4 pounds of flour mixed with 3 pints of olive oil are to be presented as a grain offering, 7 together with 3 pints of wine. The odor of these sacrifices is pleasing to the Lord. 8 When 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, 9 a grain offering of 6 pounds of flour mixed with 4 pints of olive oil is to be presented, 10 together with 4 pints of wine. The odor of this sacrifice is pleasing to the Lord.
11 That is what shall be offered with each bull, ram, sheep, or goat. 12 When more than one animal is offered, the accompanying offering is to be increased proportionately. 13 All native Israelites are to do this when they present a food offering, an odor pleasing to the Lord. 14 And 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. 15 For all time to come, the same[a] rules are binding on you and on the foreigners who live among you. You and they are alike in the Lord's sight; 16 (A)the same laws and regulations apply to you and to them.
17 The Lord gave Moses 18 the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them. 19 When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to the Lord. 20 When 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. 21 For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to the Lord from the bread you bake.
22 But suppose someone unintentionally fails to keep some of these regulations which the Lord has given Moses. 23 And suppose that in the future the community fails to do everything that the Lord commanded through Moses. 24 If 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. 25 The 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. 26 The whole community of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven, because everyone was involved in the mistake.
27 (B)If any of you sin unintentionally, you are to offer a one-year-old female goat as a sin offering. 28 At the altar the priest shall perform the ritual of purification to purify you from your sin, and you will be forgiven. 29 The same regulation applies to all who unintentionally commit a sin, whether they are native Israelites or resident foreigners.
30 But 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, 31 because they have rejected what the Lord said and have deliberately broken one of his commands. They are responsible for their own death.
The Man Who Broke the Sabbath
32 Once, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath. 33 He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community, 34 and was put under guard, because it was not clear what should be done with him. 35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must be put to death; the whole community is to stone him to death outside the camp.” 36 So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded.
Rules about Tassels
37 The Lord commanded Moses 38 (C)to 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. 39 The 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. 40 The tassels will remind you to keep all my commands, and you will belong completely to me. 41 I am the Lord your God; I brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord.”
Footnotes
- Numbers 15:15 Some ancient translations the same; Hebrew the congregation the same.
Numbers 15
Legacy Standard Bible
Offerings When Entering Canaan
15 Now Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “(A)Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land of your places of habitation, which I am going to give you, 3 then make (B)an offering by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to [a](C)fulfill a special vow, or as a freewill offering or in your (D)appointed times, to make a (E)soothing aroma to Yahweh, from the herd or from the flock. 4 (F)And the one who brings his offering near shall bring near to Yahweh a grain offering of one-tenth of an [b]ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a [c]hin of oil, 5 and you shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one-fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for (G)each lamb. 6 Or for a ram you shall prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil; 7 and for the drink offering you shall bring near one-third of a hin of wine as a soothing aroma to Yahweh. 8 And when you prepare (H)a bull from the herd as a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to [d]fulfill a special vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh, 9 then you shall bring near with the bull from the herd a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-half a hin of oil; 10 and you shall bring near as the drink offering one-half a hin of wine as an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to Yahweh.
11 ‘Thus it shall be done for each ox, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the goats. 12 According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do for everyone according to their number. 13 All who are native shall do these things in this manner, in bringing near an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to Yahweh.
Statute for the Sojourner
14 And if a sojourner sojourns with you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he [e]offers an offering by fire as a soothing aroma to Yahweh, just as you do so he shall do. 15 As for the assembly, there shall be (I)one statute for you and for the sojourner who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the sojourner be before Yahweh. 16 There shall be (J)one law and one judgment for you and for the sojourner who sojourns with you.’”
17 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 18 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land where I am going to bring you, 19 then it shall be, that when you eat of the [f](K)food of the land, you shall [g]raise up [h]a contribution offering to Yahweh. 20 (L)Of the first of your [i]dough you shall [j]raise up a cake as a [k]contribution offering; as (M)the [l]contribution offering of the threshing floor, so you shall raise it up. 21 From the first of your [m]dough you shall give to Yahweh a [n]contribution offering throughout your generations.
22 ‘But when you (N)unintentionally fail and do not observe all these commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to Moses, 23 even all that Yahweh has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day when Yahweh commanded and onward throughout your generations, 24 then it will be, if it is done (O)unintentionally, hidden from the sight of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to Yahweh, (P)with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the legal judgment, and one male goat for a sin offering. 25 Then (Q)the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they will be pardoned; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for their error. 26 So all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be pardoned, with the sojourner who sojourns among them, for it happened to all the people through (R)error.
27 ‘Also if one person sins (S)unintentionally, then he shall bring near a one year old female goat for a sin offering. 28 (T)And the priest shall make atonement before Yahweh for the person who goes astray when he sins unintentionally, making atonement for him [o]that he may be pardoned. 29 You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourns among them. 30 But the person who does anything with a (U)high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, that one is blaspheming Yahweh; and that person shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he has (V)despised the word of Yahweh and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; (W)his [p]guilt will be on him.’”
A Sabbath-breaker Put to Death
32 Now the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man (X)gathering wood on the sabbath day. 33 And those who found him gathering wood brought him near to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation; 34 and they put him in [q]custody (Y)because it had not been [r]declared what should be done to him. 35 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death; (Z)all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.” 36 So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him [s]to death with stones, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
37 Yahweh also spoke to Moses, saying, 38 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves (AA)tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue. 39 And it shall be a tassel for you [t]to look at and (AB)remember all the commandments of Yahweh, so as to do them and not [u]follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot, 40 so that you may remember to do all My commandments and (AC)be holy to your God. 41 I am Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.”
Footnotes
- Numbers 15:3 Or make a special votive offering
- Numbers 15:4 An ephah was approx. 21 qt. or 23 l
- Numbers 15:4 A hin was approx. 1 gal. or 3.8 l
- Numbers 15:8 Or make a special votive offering
- Numbers 15:14 Lit does
- Numbers 15:19 Lit bread
- Numbers 15:19 Or heave up
- Numbers 15:19 Or a heave offering
- Numbers 15:20 Or coarse meal
- Numbers 15:20 Or heave up
- Numbers 15:20 Or heave offering
- Numbers 15:20 Or heave offering
- Numbers 15:21 Or coarse meal
- Numbers 15:21 Or heave offering
- Numbers 15:28 Or and he shall
- Numbers 15:31 Or iniquity
- Numbers 15:34 Or prison
- Numbers 15:34 Lit declared distinctly
- Numbers 15:36 Lit with stones and he died
- Numbers 15:39 Lit and you shall look at it
- Numbers 15:39 Lit seek
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