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 [a](A)food of the land, you shall lift up an [b]offering to the Lord. 20 (B)Of the first of your [c]dough you shall lift up a loaf as an [d]offering; as (C)an [e]offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up. 21 From the first of your [f]dough you shall give to the Lord an [g]offering throughout your generations.

22 ‘But when you (D)unintentionally do wrong and fail to [h]comply with all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses, 23 that is, all that the Lord has commanded you [i]through Moses from the day that the Lord gave commandments and onward, throughout your generations, 24 then it shall be, if it is done (E)unintentionally, [j]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, (F)with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat as a sin offering. 25 Then (G)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 (H)unintentional wrong.

27 ‘Also, if one person sins (I)unintentionally, then he shall offer a one-year-old female goat as a sin offering. 28 And (J)the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who goes astray by an unintentional sin, making atonement for him [k]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 [l](K)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 (L)despised the word of the Lord and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; (M)his [m]guilt will be on him.’”

Sabbath-breaking Punished

32 Now while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man (N)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, (O)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; (P)all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.” 36 So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him [n]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 (Q)tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a [o]violet thread. 39 It shall be a tassel for you [p]to look at and (R)remember all the commandments of the Lord, so that you will do them and not [q]follow your own heart and your own eyes, [r]which led you to prostitute yourselves, 40 so that you will remember and do all My commandments and (S)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.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 15:19 Lit bread
  2. Numbers 15:19 Or uplifted offering
  3. Numbers 15:20 Or coarse meal
  4. Numbers 15:20 Or uplifted offering
  5. Numbers 15:20 Or uplifted offering
  6. Numbers 15:21 Or coarse meal
  7. Numbers 15:21 Or uplifted offering
  8. Numbers 15:22 Lit perform all
  9. Numbers 15:23 Lit by the hand of
  10. Numbers 15:24 Lit away from the eyes of the congregation
  11. Numbers 15:28 Or and he shall
  12. Numbers 15:30 Lit with upraised hand
  13. Numbers 15:31 Or wrongdoing
  14. Numbers 15:36 Lit with stones and he died
  15. Numbers 15:38 Or bluish; LXX hyacinth in color, and so throughout the ch
  16. Numbers 15:39 Lit and you shall look at it
  17. Numbers 15:39 Lit seek
  18. Numbers 15:39 Lit after which you played

37 (A)We will also bring the first of our [a]dough, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the new wine, and the oil (B)to the priests at the chambers of the house of our God, and the (C)tithe of our ground to the Levites, for the Levites are they who receive the tithes in all the rural towns.

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  1. Nehemiah 10:37 Or coarse meal

30 And the first of all the (A)first fruits of every kind and every [a]contribution of every kind, from all your [b]contributions, shall be for the priests; you shall also give to the priest the (B)first of your [c]dough, to make a (C)blessing rest on your house.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 44:30 Or uplifted offering(s)
  2. Ezekiel 44:30 Or uplifted offering(s)
  3. Ezekiel 44:30 Or coarse meal

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