獻祭的條例

15 耶和華對摩西說: 「你把以下條例告訴以色列人。

「你們進入耶和華賜給你們的那片土地後, 要用牛羊作火祭獻給耶和華,作蒙耶和華悅納的馨香之祭。不管是獻燔祭、平安祭、還願祭、自願獻的祭還是節期的祭,都當如此。 獻祭者要同時將一公斤細麵粉調上一升油作素祭獻給耶和華。 無論燔祭還是平安祭,每獻一隻羊羔,要同時獻上一升酒作奠祭; 每獻一隻公綿羊,要同時將兩公斤細麵粉調上一點二升油作素祭獻上, 還要獻一點二升酒作奠祭。這是蒙耶和華悅納的馨香之祭。 如果用公牛作燔祭、平安祭、還願祭或別的祭獻給耶和華, 就要同時將三公斤細麵粉調上兩升油作素祭獻上, 10 還要獻上兩升酒作奠祭。這是蒙耶和華悅納的馨香之祭。

11 「獻公牛、公綿羊、綿羊羔或山羊羔時,都要這樣辦理。 12 無論獻多少牲畜,每隻都要這樣辦理。 13 凡以色列人獻上蒙耶和華悅納的馨香火祭時,都要這樣辦理。 14 住在你們中間的外族人,不管是暫住還是世代居住的,若願意獻上蒙耶和華悅納的馨香火祭,也要這樣辦理。 15 以色列人和寄居的外族人都要遵守上面的條例,永世不變。你們在耶和華面前怎樣做,外族人也要怎樣做。 16 你們和寄居的外族人要遵行一樣的條例和規定。」

17 耶和華對摩西說: 18 「你把以下條例告訴以色列人。

「你們到達耶和華領你們去的地方, 19 吃當地的出產時,要拿出一份作舉祭獻給耶和華。 20 你們要用初熟的麥子磨麵做餅,當作舉祭獻上,好像獻麥場的舉祭一樣。 21 你們世世代代都要用初熟的麥子磨麵,當作舉祭獻給耶和華。

22 「如果你們無意間違背了耶和華藉摩西吩咐你們遵守的命令, 23 就是吩咐你們從祂頒佈之日起要世世代代遵守的命令, 24 如果是因會眾的無知而造成過失,全體會眾就要獻上一頭公牛犢作燔祭,作蒙耶和華悅納的馨香之祭,同時按規定獻上素祭和奠祭,外加一隻公山羊作贖罪祭。 25 祭司要為以色列全體會眾贖罪,這樣他們就得到了赦免,因為是無心之過,並且他們已經向耶和華獻上火祭和贖罪祭。 26 這樣,以色列全體會眾和寄居的外族人都必蒙赦免,因為無心之過牽涉到所有的人。

27 「倘若是個人無意間犯了罪,他就要獻上一隻一歲的母山羊作贖罪祭。 28 祭司要為這無意間犯罪的人在耶和華面前贖罪,使他獲得赦免。 29 無論是以色列人或是寄居的外族人,凡是犯無心之過的都要按這規例辦理。 30 但不管是以色列人還是外族人,若故意妄為,褻瀆了耶和華,都要被剷除, 31 因為他藐視耶和華的話,違背耶和華的命令,必須被剷除,罪責自負。」

處死違犯安息日者

32 以色列人在曠野的時候,發現有人在安息日撿柴, 33 他們就把撿柴的人帶到摩西、亞倫和全體會眾那裡, 34 把他關起來,因為不知道如何處置他。 35 耶和華對摩西說:「必須處死那人,全體會眾要在營外用石頭打死他。」 36 於是,全體會眾照耶和華對摩西的吩咐,把他拉到營外,用石頭打死了他。

衣服穗子的條例

37 耶和華對摩西說: 38 「你要吩咐以色列人世世代代在衣角縫上穗子,穗子上繫一條藍色細帶。 39 穗子是用來提醒他們要遵行我的一切命令,不要隨從自己心中和眼目的情慾,以免玷污自己。 40 這樣,你們就會記得遵守我的一切命令,做你們上帝的聖潔之民。 41 我是你們的上帝耶和華,我把你們從埃及領出來,是要做你們的上帝。我是你們的上帝耶和華。」

Matters of Worship

15 1-5 God spoke to Moses: “Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, When you enter your homeland that I am giving to you and sacrifice a Fire-Gift to God, a Whole-Burnt-Offering or any sacrifice from the herd or flock for a Vow-Offering or Freewill-Offering at one of the appointed feasts, as a pleasing fragrance for God, the one bringing the offering shall present to God a Grain-Offering of two quarts of fine flour mixed with a quart of oil. With each lamb for the Whole-Burnt-Offering or other sacrifice, prepare a quart of oil and a quart of wine as a Drink-Offering.

6-7 “For a ram prepare a Grain-Offering of four quarts of fine flour mixed with one and a quarter quarts of oil and one and a quarter quarts of wine as a Drink-Offering. Present it as a pleasing fragrance to God.

8-10 “When you prepare a young bull as a Whole-Burnt-Offering or sacrifice for a special vow or a Peace-Offering to God, bring with the bull a Grain-Offering of six quarts of fine flour and two quarts of oil. Also bring two quarts of wine as a Drink-Offering. It will be a Fire-Gift, a pleasing fragrance to God.

11-12 “Each bull or ram, each lamb or young goat, is to be prepared in this same way. Carry out this procedure for each one, no matter how many you have to prepare.

13-16 “Every native-born Israelite is to follow this procedure when he brings a Fire-Gift as a pleasing fragrance to God. In future generations, when a foreigner or visitor living at length among you presents a Fire-Gift as a pleasing fragrance to God, the same procedures must be followed. The community has the same rules for you and the foreigner living among you. This is the regular rule for future generations. You and the foreigner are the same before God. The same laws and regulations apply to both you and the foreigner who lives with you.”

17-21 God spoke to Moses: “Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, When you enter the land into which I’m bringing you, and you eat the food of that country, set some aside as an offering for God. From the first batch of bread dough make a round loaf for an offering—an offering from the threshing floor. Down through the future generations make this offering to God from each first batch of dough.

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22-26 “But if you should get off the beaten track and not keep the commands which God spoke to Moses, any of the things that God commanded you under the authority of Moses from the time that God first commanded you right up to this present time, and if it happened more or less by mistake, with the congregation unaware of it, then the whole congregation is to sacrifice one young bull as a Whole-Burnt-Offering, a pleasing fragrance to God, accompanied by its Grain-Offering and Drink-Offering as stipulated in the rules, and a he-goat as an Absolution-Offering. The priest is to atone for the entire community of the People of Israel and they will stand forgiven. The sin was not deliberate, and they offered to God the Fire-Gift and Absolution-Offering for their inadvertence. The whole community of Israel including the foreigners living there will be absolved, because everyone was involved in the error.

27-28 “But if it’s just one person who sins by mistake, not realizing what he’s doing, he is to bring a yearling she-goat as an Absolution-Offering. The priest then is to atone for the person who accidentally sinned, to make atonement before God so that it won’t be held against him.

29 “The same standard holds for everyone who sins by mistake; the native-born Israelites and the foreigners go by the same rules.

30-31 “But the person, native or foreigner, who sins defiantly, deliberately blaspheming God, must be cut off from his people: He has despised God’s word, he has violated God’s command; that person must be kicked out of the community, ostracized, left alone in his wrongdoing.”

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32-35 Once, during those wilderness years of the People of Israel, a man was caught gathering wood on the Sabbath. The ones who caught him hauled him before Moses and Aaron and the entire congregation. They put him in custody until it became clear what to do with him. Then God spoke to Moses: “Give the man the death penalty. Yes, kill him, the whole community hurling stones at him outside the camp.”

36 So the whole community took him outside the camp and threw stones at him, an execution commanded by God and given through Moses.

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37-41 God spoke to Moses: “Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them that from now on they are to make tassels on the corners of their garments and to mark each corner tassel with a blue thread. When you look at these tassels you’ll remember and keep all the commandments of God, and not get distracted by everything you feel or see that seduces you into infidelities. The tassels will signal remembrance and observance of all my commandments, to live a holy life to God. I am your God who rescued you from the land of Egypt to be your personal God. Yes, I am God, your God.”