Numbers 15:22-29

GOD’S WORD Translation

What Is to Be Done about Unintentional and Intentional Wrongdoings

²² “Suppose you unintentionally do something wrong by not obeying all these commands the Lord gave Moses. ²³ (Everything the Lord commanded you through Moses holds as true for generations to come as it did the day the Lord gave the commands.) ²⁴ If it was unintentional and no one else knows about it, the whole community must sacrifice a young bull as a burnt offering, a soothing aroma to the Lord, along with the proper grain and wine offerings, and a male goat as an offering for sin. ²⁵ The priest will make peace with the Lord for the whole community of Israel. Then they will be forgiven because the wrongdoing was unintentional and they brought these two offerings to the Lord for their sin: an offering by fire and an offering for sin. ²⁶ So the whole community of Israel will be forgiven, including foreigners who are living among them, since all the people were involved in the unintentional wrongdoing.

²⁷ “If one person unintentionally does something wrong, a one-year-old female goat must be sacrificed as an offering for sin. ²⁸ The priest will offer the sacrifice to make peace with the Lord for that person, and that person will be forgiven. ²⁹ You must give the same instructions to everyone who does something wrong unintentionally, whether they are native-born Israelites or not.