Numbers 15
Complete Jewish Bible
15 Adonai said to Moshe, 2 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘When you have come into the land where you are going to live, which I am giving to you, 3 and want to make an offering by fire to Adonai — a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a special vow, or to be a voluntary offering, or at your designated times, to make a fragrant aroma for Adonai — then, whether it is comes from the herd or from the flock, 4 the person bringing the offering is to present Adonai with a grain offering consisting of two quarts of fine flour mixed with one quart of olive oil, 5 and one quart of wine for the drink offering. This is what you are to prepare with the burnt offering or for each lamb sacrificed.
6 “‘For a ram, prepare one gallon of fine flour mixed with one-and-one-third quarts of olive oil; 7 while for the drink offering, you are to present one-and-one-third quarts of wine as a fragrant aroma for Adonai.
(v) 8 “‘When you prepare a bull as a burnt offering, as a sacrifice to fulfill a special vow or as peace offerings for Adonai, 9 there is to be presented with the bull a grain offering of one-and-a-half gallons of fine flour mixed with two quarts of olive oil. 10 For the drink offering, present two quarts of wine for an offering made by fire, a fragant aroma for Adonai.
11 “‘Do it this way for each bull, ram, male lamb or kid. 12 For as many animals as you prepare, do this for each one, regardless of how many animals there are.
13 “‘Every citizen is to do these things in this way when presenting an offering made by fire as a fragrant aroma for Adonai. 14 If a foreigner stays with you — or whoever may be with you, through all your generations — and he wants to bring an offering made by fire as a fragrant aroma for Adonai, he is to do the same as you. 15 For this community there will be the same law for you as for the foreigner living with you; this is a permanent regulation through all your generations; the foreigner is to be treated the same way before Adonai as yourselves. 16 The same Torah and standard of judgment will apply to both you and the foreigner living with you.’”
(vi) 17 Adonai said to Moshe, 18 “Speak to the people of Isra’el; tell them, ‘When you enter the land where I am bringing you 19 and eat bread produced in the land, you are to set aside a portion as a gift for Adonai. 20 Set aside from your first dough a cake as a gift; set it aside as you would set aside a portion of the grain from the threshing-floor. 21 From your first dough you will give Adonai a portion as a gift through all your generations.
22 “‘If by mistake you fail to observe all these mitzvot that Adonai has spoken to Moshe, 23 yes, everything that Adonai has ordered you to do through Moshe, from the day Adonai gave the order and onward through all your generations, 24 then, if it was done by mistake by the community and was not known to them, the whole community is to offer one young bull for a burnt offering as a fragrant aroma to Adonai, with its grain and drink offerings, in keeping with the rule, and one male goat as a sin offering. 25 The cohen is to make atonement for the whole community of the people of Isra’el; and they will be forgiven; because it was a mistake; and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire, to Adonai, and their sin offering before Adonai for their mistake. 26 The whole community of the people of Isra’el will be forgiven, likewise the foreigner staying with them; because for all the people it was a mistake.
(vii) 27 “‘If an individual sins by mistake, he is to offer a female goat in its first year as a sin offering. 28 The cohen will make atonement before Adonai for the person who makes a mistake by sinning inadvertently; he will make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven — 29 no matter whether he is a citizen of Isra’el or a foreigner living with them. You are to have one law for whoever it is that does something wrong by mistake.
30 “‘But an individual who does something wrong intentionally, whether a citizen or a foreigner, is blaspheming Adonai. That person will be cut off from his people. 31 Because he has had contempt for the word of Adonai and has disobeyed his command, that person will be cut off completely; his offense will remain with him.’”
32 While the people of Isra’el were in the desert, they found a man gathering wood on Shabbat. 33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moshe, Aharon and the whole congregation. 34 They kept him in custody, because it had not yet been decided what to do to him. 35 Then Adonai said to Moshe, “This man must be put to death; the entire community is to stone him to death outside the camp.” 36 So the whole community brought him outside the camp and threw stones at him until he died, as Adonai had ordered Moshe.
(Maftir) 37 Adonai said to Moshe, 38 “Speak to the people of Isra’el, instructing them to make, through all their generations, tzitziyot on the corners of their garments, and to put with the tzitzit on each corner a blue thread. 39 It is to be a tzitzit for you to look at and thereby remember all of Adonai’s mitzvot and obey them, so that you won’t go around wherever your own heart and eyes lead you to prostitute yourselves; 40 but it will help you remember and obey all my mitzvot and be holy for your God. 41 I am Adonai your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt in order to be your God. I am Adonai your God.”
Haftarah Shlach L’kha: Y’hoshua (Joshua) 2:1–24
B’rit Hadashah suggested reading for Parashah Shlach L’kha: Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 3:7–19
Nombres 15
Louis Segond
15 L'Éternel parla à Moïse, et dit:
2 Parle aux enfants d'Israël, et dis-leur: Quand vous serez entrés dans le pays que je vous donne pour y établir vos demeures,
3 et que vous offrirez à l'Éternel un sacrifice consumé par le feu, soit un holocauste, soit un sacrifice en accomplissement d'un voeu ou en offrande volontaire, ou bien dans vos fêtes, pour produire avec votre gros ou votre menu bétail une agréable odeur à l'Éternel, -
4 celui qui fera son offrande à l'Éternel présentera en offrande un dixième de fleur de farine pétrie dans un quart de hin d'huile,
5 et tu feras une libation d'un quart de hin de vin, avec l'holocauste ou le sacrifice, pour chaque agneau.
6 Pour un bélier, tu présenteras en offrande deux dixièmes de fleur de farine pétrie dans un tiers de hin d'huile,
7 et tu feras une libation d'un tiers de hin de vin, comme offrande d'une agréable odeur à l'Éternel.
8 Si tu offres un veau, soit comme holocauste, soit comme sacrifice en accomplissement d'un voeu, ou comme sacrifice d'actions de grâces à l'Éternel,
9 on présentera en offrande, avec le veau, trois dixièmes de fleur de farine pétrie dans un demi-hin d'huile,
10 et tu feras une libation d'un demi-hin de vin: c'est un sacrifice consumé par le feu, d'une agréable odeur à l'Éternel.
11 On fera ainsi pour chaque boeuf, pour chaque bélier, pour chaque petit des brebis ou des chèvres.
12 Suivant le nombre des victimes, vous ferez ainsi pour chacune, d'après leur nombre.
13 Tout indigène fera ces choses ainsi, lorsqu'il offrira un sacrifice consumé par le feu, d'une agréable odeur à l'Éternel.
14 Si un étranger séjournant chez vous, ou se trouvant à l'avenir au milieu de vous, offre un sacrifice consumé par le feu, d'une agréable odeur à l'Éternel, il l'offrira de la même manière que vous.
15 Il y aura une seule loi pour toute l'assemblée, pour vous et pour l'étranger en séjour au milieu de vous; ce sera une loi perpétuelle parmi vos descendants: il en sera de l'étranger comme de vous, devant l'Éternel.
16 Il y aura une seule loi et une seule ordonnance pour vous et pour l'étranger en séjour parmi vous.
17 L'Éternel parla à Moïse, et dit:
18 Parle aux enfants d'Israël, et dis-leur: Quand vous serez arrivés dans le pays où je vous ferai entrer,
19 et que vous mangerez du pain de ce pays, vous prélèverez une offrande pour l'Éternel.
20 Vous présenterez par élévation un gâteau, les prémices de votre pâte; vous le présenterez comme l'offrande qu'on prélève de l'aire.
21 Vous prélèverez pour l'Éternel une offrande des prémices de votre pâte, dans les temps à venir.
22 Si vous péchez involontairement, en n'observant pas tous ces commandements que l'Éternel a fait connaître à Moïse,
23 tout ce que l'Éternel vous a ordonné par Moïse, depuis le jour où l'Éternel a donné des commandements et plus tard dans les temps à venir;
24 si l'on a péché involontairement, sans que l'assemblée s'en soit aperçue, toute l'assemblée offrira un jeune taureau en holocauste d'une agréable odeur à l'Éternel, avec l'offrande et la libation, d'après les règles établies; elle offrira encore un bouc en sacrifice d'expiation.
25 Le sacrificateur fera l'expiation pour toute l'assemblée des enfants d'Israël, et il leur sera pardonné; car ils ont péché involontairement, et ils ont apporté leur offrande, un sacrifice consumé par le feu en l'honneur de l'Éternel et une victime expiatoire devant l'Éternel, à cause du péché qu'ils ont involontairement commis.
26 Il sera pardonné à toute l'assemblée des enfants d'Israël et à l'étranger en séjour au milieu d'eux, car c'est involontairement que tout le peuple a péché.
27 Si c'est une seule personne qui a péché involontairement, elle offrira une chèvre d'un an en sacrifice pour le péché.
28 Le sacrificateur fera l'expiation pour la personne qui a péché involontairement devant l'Éternel: quand il aura fait l'expiation pour elle, il lui sera pardonné.
29 Pour l'indigène parmi les enfants d'Israël et pour l'étranger en séjour au milieu d'eux, il y aura pour vous une même loi, quand on péchera involontairement.
30 Mais si quelqu'un, indigène ou étranger, agit la main levée, il outrage l'Éternel; celui-là sera retranché du milieu de son peuple.
31 Il a méprisé la parole de l'Éternel, et il a violé son commandement: celui-là sera retranché, il portera la peine de son iniquité.
32 Comme les enfants d'Israël étaient dans le désert, on trouva un homme qui ramassait du bois le jour du sabbat.
33 Ceux qui l'avaient trouvé ramassant du bois l'amenèrent à Moïse, à Aaron, et à toute l'assemblée.
34 On le mit en prison, car ce qu'on devait lui faire n'avait pas été déclaré.
35 L'Éternel dit à Moïse: Cet homme sera puni de mort, toute l'assemblée le lapidera hors du camp.
36 Toute l'assemblée le fit sortir du camp et le lapida, et il mourut, comme l'Éternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.
37 L'Éternel dit à Moïse:
38 Parle aux enfants d'Israël, et dis-leur qu'ils se fassent, de génération en génération, une frange au bord de leurs vêtements, et qu'ils mettent un cordon bleu sur cette frange du bord de leurs vêtements.
39 Quand vous aurez cette frange, vous la regarderez, et vous vous souviendrez de tous les commandements de l'Éternel pour les mettre en pratique, et vous ne suivrez pas les désirs de vos coeurs et de vos yeux pour vous laisser entraîner à l'infidélité.
40 Vous vous souviendrez ainsi de mes commandements, vous les mettrez en pratique, et vous serez saints pour votre Dieu.
41 Je suis l'Éternel, votre Dieu, qui vous ai fait sortir du pays d'Égypte, pour être votre Dieu. Je suis l'Éternel, votre Dieu.
Numbers 15
Good News Translation
Laws about Sacrifice
15 The Lord gave Moses 2 the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them. 3 A bull, a ram, a sheep, or a goat may be presented to the Lord as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice in fulfillment of a vow or as a freewill offering or as an offering at your regular religious festivals; the odor of these food offerings is pleasing to the Lord. 4-5 Whoever presents a sheep or a goat as a burnt offering to the Lord is to bring with each animal 2 pounds of flour mixed with 2 pints of olive oil as a grain offering, together with 2 pints of wine. 6 When a ram is offered, 4 pounds of flour mixed with 3 pints of olive oil are to be presented as a grain offering, 7 together with 3 pints of wine. The odor of these sacrifices is pleasing to the Lord. 8 When a bull is offered to the Lord as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice in fulfillment of a vow or as a fellowship offering, 9 a grain offering of 6 pounds of flour mixed with 4 pints of olive oil is to be presented, 10 together with 4 pints of wine. The odor of this sacrifice is pleasing to the Lord.
11 That is what shall be offered with each bull, ram, sheep, or goat. 12 When more than one animal is offered, the accompanying offering is to be increased proportionately. 13 All native Israelites are to do this when they present a food offering, an odor pleasing to the Lord. 14 And if at any time foreigners living among you, whether on a temporary or a permanent basis, make a food offering, an odor that pleases the Lord, they are to observe the same regulations. 15 For all time to come, the same[a] rules are binding on you and on the foreigners who live among you. You and they are alike in the Lord's sight; 16 (A)the same laws and regulations apply to you and to them.
17 The Lord gave Moses 18 the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them. 19 When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to the Lord. 20 When you bake bread, the first loaf of the first bread made from the new grain is to be presented as a special contribution to the Lord. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the grain you thresh. 21 For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to the Lord from the bread you bake.
22 But suppose someone unintentionally fails to keep some of these regulations which the Lord has given Moses. 23 And suppose that in the future the community fails to do everything that the Lord commanded through Moses. 24 If the mistake was made because of the ignorance of the community, they are to offer a bull as a burnt offering, an odor that pleases the Lord, with the proper grain offering and wine offering. In addition, they are to offer a male goat as a sin offering. 25 The priest shall perform the ritual of purification for the community, and they will be forgiven, because the mistake was unintentional and they brought their sin offering as a food offering to the Lord. 26 The whole community of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven, because everyone was involved in the mistake.
27 (B)If any of you sin unintentionally, you are to offer a one-year-old female goat as a sin offering. 28 At the altar the priest shall perform the ritual of purification to purify you from your sin, and you will be forgiven. 29 The same regulation applies to all who unintentionally commit a sin, whether they are native Israelites or resident foreigners.
30 But any who sin deliberately, whether they are natives or foreigners, are guilty of treating the Lord with contempt, and they shall be put to death, 31 because they have rejected what the Lord said and have deliberately broken one of his commands. They are responsible for their own death.
The Man Who Broke the Sabbath
32 Once, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath. 33 He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community, 34 and was put under guard, because it was not clear what should be done with him. 35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must be put to death; the whole community is to stone him to death outside the camp.” 36 So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded.
Rules about Tassels
37 The Lord commanded Moses 38 (C)to say to the people of Israel: “Make tassels on the corners of your garments and put a blue cord on each tassel. You are to do this for all time to come. 39 The tassels will serve as reminders, and each time you see them you will remember all my commands and obey them; then you will not turn away from me and follow your own wishes and desires. 40 The tassels will remind you to keep all my commands, and you will belong completely to me. 41 I am the Lord your God; I brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord.”
Footnotes
- Numbers 15:15 Some ancient translations the same; Hebrew the congregation the same.
Copyright © 1998 by David H. Stern. All rights reserved.
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