Laws for Canaan

15 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “^(A)Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land ^[a]where you are going to live, which I am giving you, ³ and you make ^(B)an offering by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to ^[b](C)fulfill a special vow, or as a ^[c]voluntary offering or at your ^(D)appointed times, to make a ^(E)soothing aroma to the Lord from the herd or from the flock, ⁴ then ^(F)the one who presents his offering shall present to the Lord a grain offering of a tenth of an ^[d]ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a ^[e]hin of oil, ⁵ and you shall prepare wine for the drink offering, a 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 a third of a hin of oil; ⁷ and for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine as a soothing aroma to the Lord. ⁸ And when you prepare ^(H)a bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to ^[f]fulfill a special vow, or for peace offerings to the Lord, ⁹ then you shall offer with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil; ¹⁰ and you shall offer as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord.

¹¹ ‘This is how 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 each one according to their number. ¹³ Everyone who is a native shall do these things in this way, in presenting an offering by fire as a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Law for the Stranger

¹⁴ Now if a stranger resides among you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he wants to make an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord, just as you do so shall he do. ¹⁵ As for the assembly, there shall be ^(I)one statute for you and for the stranger who resides among you, a permanent statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord. ¹⁶ There is to be ^(J)one law and one ordinance for you and for the stranger who resides with you.’”

¹⁷ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸ “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land where I am bringing you, ¹⁹ then it shall be, that when you eat from the ^[g](K)food of the land, you shall lift up an ^[h]offering to the Lord. ^20 (L)Of the first of your ^[i]dough you shall lift up a loaf as an ^[j]offering; as ^(M)an ^[k]offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up. ²¹ From the first of your ^[l]dough you shall give to the Lord an ^[m]offering throughout your generations.

²² ‘But when you ^(N)unintentionally do wrong and fail to ^[n]comply with all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses, ²³ that is, all that the Lord has commanded you ^[o]through Moses from the day that the Lord gave commandments and onward, throughout your generations, ²⁴ then it shall be, if it is done ^(O)unintentionally, ^[p]without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one bull as a burnt offering, as a soothing aroma to the Lord, ^(P)with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat as a sin offering. ²⁵ Then ^(Q)the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they will be forgiven; for it was an unintentional wrong, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their unintentional wrong. ²⁶ So all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, as well as the stranger who resides among them, for guilt was attributed to all the people through an ^(R)unintentional wrong.

²⁷ ‘Also, if one person sins ^(S)unintentionally, then he shall offer a one-year-old female goat as a sin offering. ²⁸ And ^(T)the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who goes astray by an unintentional sin, making atonement for him ^[q]so that he may be forgiven. ²⁹ You shall have one law for the native among the sons of Israel and for the stranger who resides among them, for one who does anything wrong unintentionally. ³⁰ But the person who does wrong ^[r](U)defiantly, whether he is a native or a stranger, that one is blaspheming the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from among his people. ³¹ Since he has ^(V)despised the word of the Lord and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; ^(W)his ^[s]guilt will be on him.’”

Sabbath-breaking Punished

³² Now while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man ^(X)gathering wood on the Sabbath day. ³³ And those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation; ³⁴ and they placed him in custody, ^(Y)because it had not been decided what should be done to him. ³⁵ Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must 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 ^[t]to death with stones, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

³⁷ The Lord 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 ^[u]violet thread. ³⁹ It shall be a tassel for you ^[v]to look at and ^(AB)remember all the commandments of the Lord, so that you will do them and not ^[w]follow your own heart and your own eyes, ^[x]which led you to prostitute yourselves, ⁴⁰ so that you will remember and do all My commandments and ^(AC)be holy to your God. ⁴¹ I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the Lord your God.”

A Contrite Sinner’s Prayer for Pardon.

For the music director. A Psalm of David, when ^[a]Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.