Numbers 15:15-29

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¹⁵ The community is to have the same rules for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.^(A) You and the foreigner shall be the same before the Lord: ¹⁶ The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing among you.^(B)’”

¹⁷ The Lord said to Moses, ¹⁸ “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land to which I am taking you^{(C) 19} and you eat the food of the land,^(D) present a portion as an offering to the Lord.^{(E) 20} Present a loaf from the first of your ground meal^(F) and present it as an offering from the threshing floor.^{(G) 21} Throughout the generations to come^(H) you are to give this offering to the Lord from the first of your ground meal.^(I)

Offerings for Unintentional Sins

²² “‘Now if you as a community unintentionally fail to keep any of these commands the Lord gave Moses^(J)— ²³ any of the Lord’s commands to you through him, from the day the Lord gave them and continuing through the generations to come^(K)— ²⁴ and if this is done unintentionally^(L) without the community being aware of it,^(M) then the whole community is to offer a young bull for a burnt offering^(N) as an aroma pleasing to the Lord,^(O) along with its prescribed grain offering^(P) and drink offering,^(Q) and a male goat for a sin offering.^{[a](R) 25} The priest is to make atonement for the whole Israelite community, and they will be forgiven,^(S) for it was not intentional^(T) and they have presented to the Lord for their wrong a food offering^(U) and a sin offering.^{(V) 26} The whole Israelite community and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, because all the people were involved in the unintentional wrong.^(W)

²⁷ “‘But if just one person sins unintentionally,^(X) that person must bring a year-old female goat for a sin offering.^{(Y) 28} The priest is to make atonement^(Z) before the Lord for the one who erred by sinning unintentionally, and when atonement has been made, that person will be forgiven.^{(AA) 29} One and the same law applies to everyone who sins unintentionally, whether a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.^(AB)