Numbers 15
Tree of Life Version
Fragrant Aromas to Adonai
15 Again Adonai spoke to Moses saying, 2 “Speak to Bnei-Yisrael and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you where you will make your homes, 3 and you are presenting a fire offering to Adonai—a burnt offering or a sacrifice to mark fulfilling a vow, a freewill offering, or during moadim[a]—to present a pleasing aroma to Adonai, from the herd or from the flock, 4 the one bringing the offering is to present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil.
5 “Now with each lamb for the burnt offering or sacrifice, you are to prepare a fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 6 With a ram, you are to prepare two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil, 7 and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering. You are to offer it as a pleasing aroma to Adonai.
8 “Whenever you are to prepare a young bull for a burnt offering, a special vow offering, or a fellowship offering to Adonai, 9 bring with the young bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil. 10 You are to also offer as the drink offering half a hin of wine as a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to Adonai. 11 This is to be done for each bull or ram, for each young goat or lamb. 12 Do this for each one, for as many as you prepare.
13 “Everyone native-born is to do these things like so when bringing a fire offering as a pleasant aroma to Adonai. 14 Whenever an outsider resides with you, or whoever is among you for your generations to come, and he is to present a fire offering as a fragrant aroma to Adonai, as you do, he must do exactly the same as you are doing.
15 “The community will have the same rule for you as well as for the resident outsider. It will be a lasting statute throughout your generations. As for you, so for the outsider will it be before Adonai. 16 The same Torah and the same regulations will apply to both you and the outsider residing among you.”
17 Adonai spoke to Moses saying, 18 “Speak to Bnei-Yisrael. Say to them: When you enter the land to which I am taking you, 19 and you eat some of the food of the land, you are to offer a portion to Adonai. 20 You are to offer a cake from the first of your ground-up meal as an offering from your threshing floor—so you are to lift it up. 21 Throughout your generations to come, you are to give this offering from the first of your ground-up meal.
Unintentional Versus Defiant Sin
22 “If you unintentionally fail, not keeping any of these mitzvot that Adonai related to Moses 23 —that is, anything that Adonai commanded you through Moses’s hand, from the day Adonai commanded and onward throughout your generations— 24 and it is done unintentionally out of sight of the community, then the entire community is to offer one young bull from the herd for a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to Adonai, along with its appropriate grain offering and drink offering, and one male goat as a sin offering. 25 So the kohen will make atonement for the entire community of Bnei-Yisrael, and they will be forgiven, for it was unintentional and they brought a fire offering and their sin offering to Adonai for their error. 26 So the whole community of Bnei-Yisrael along with the outsider residing among them will be forgiven, for all the people were involved in unintentional wrongdoing.
27 “If but one person should sin unintentionally, he is to bring a year-old female goat for a sin offering. 28 The kohen is to make atonement before Adonai for that person who erred by sinning without intent, and he is to be forgiven when atonement has been made for him. 29 Whether a native-born of Bnei-Yisrael or an outsider living among them, one Torah applies to you for the one sinning unintentionally.
30 “But the person who sins defiantly, whether native or outsider, reviles Adonai and that person is to be cut off from his people. 31 Because he has despised the word of Adonai and has broken His commandment, that person will certainly be cut off—his guilt will remain on him.”
32 While Bnei-Yisrael were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Shabbat.
33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron and the entire assembly. 34 They kept him under arrest, not being clear what was to be done to him.
35 Adonai said to Moses, “The man has to die. The whole assembly is to stone him with stones outside the camp.” 36 So the whole assembly took him outside the camp. They stoned him with stones. He died just as Adonai commanded Moses.
Tzitzit for Holiness
37 Adonai spoke to Moses saying, 38 “Speak to Bnei-Yisrael. Say to them that they are to make for themselves tzitzit on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and they are to put a blue cord on each tzitzit. [b] 39 It will be your own tzitzit—so whenever you look at them, you will remember all the mitzvot of Adonai and do them and not go spying out after your own hearts and your own eyes, prostituting yourselves. 40 This way you will remember and obey all My mitzvot and you will be holy to your God. 41 I am Adonai your God. I brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am Adonai your God.”
Footnotes
- Numbers 15:3 Moed: appointed times.
- Numbers 15:39 cf. Matt. 9:20.
Numbers 15
1599 Geneva Bible
15 2 The offering which the Israelites should offer when they came into the land of Canaan. 32 The punishment of him that brake the Sabbath.
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, (A)When ye be come into the [a]land of your habitations which I give unto you,
3 And will make an offering by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice (B)[b]to fulfill a vow, or a free offering, or in your feasts to make a (C)sweet savor unto the Lord, of the herd or of the flock,
4 Then (D)let him that offereth his offering unto the Lord, bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of fine flour, mingled with the fourth part of an [c]Hin of oil.
5 Also thou shalt prepare the fourth part of an Hin of wine to be poured on a lamb appointed for the burnt offering, or any offering.
6 And for a ram thou shalt for a meat offering, prepare two tenth deals of fine flour, mingled with the third part of an Hin of oil.
7 And for a [d]drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an Hin of wine, for a sweet savor unto the Lord.
8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or a peace offering to the Lord,
9 Then let him offer with the bullock a meat offering of [e]three tenth deals of fine flour, mingled with half an Hin of oil.
10 And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an Hin of wine, for an offering made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord.
11 Thus shall it be done for a bullock, or for a ram, or for a lamb, or for a kid.
12 According to the number [f]that ye prepare to offer, so shall ye do to everyone according to their number.
13 All that are born of the country, shall do these things thus, to offer an offering made by fire of sweet savor unto the Lord.
14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will make an offering by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord, as ye do, so he shall do.
15 (E)One ordinance shall be both for you of the Congregation, and also for the stranger that dwelleth with you, even an ordinance forever in your generations: as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.
16 One law and one manner shall serve both for you and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
17 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land, to the which I bring you,
19 And when ye shall eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer an heave offering unto the Lord.
20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your [g]dough for an heave offering: (F)as the heave offering of the barn, so ye shall lift it up.
21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the Lord an heave offering in your generations.
22 And if ye [h]have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the Lord hath spoken unto Moses,
23 Even all that the Lord hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the first day that the Lord commanded Moses, and hence forward among your generations:
24 And if so be that ought be committed ignorantly of the [i]Congregation, then all the Congregation shall give a bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor unto the Lord, with the meat offering and drink offering thereto, according to the (G)manner, and an he goat for a sin offering.
25 And the Priest shall make an atonement for all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them: for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering for an offering made by fire unto the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their ignorance.
26 Then shall be forgiven all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that dwelleth among them: for all the people were in ignorance.
27 ¶ (H)But if any one person sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of a year old for a sin offering.
28 And the Priest shall make an atonement for the ignorant person, when he sinneth by ignorance before the Lord, to make reconciliation for him: and it shall be forgiven him.
29 He that is born among the children of Israel, and the stranger that dwelleth among them, shall have both one law, who so doth sin by ignorance.
30 ¶ But the person that doeth ought [j]presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same blasphemeth the Lord: therefore that person shall be cut off from among his people,
31 Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment: that person shall be utterly cut off: his [k]iniquity shall be upon him.
32 ¶ And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day.
33 And they that found him gathering sticks, brought him unto Moses and to Aaron, and unto all the Congregation,
34 And they put him (I)ward: for it was not declared what should be done unto him.
35 Then the Lord said unto Moses, This man shall die the death: and let all the multitude stone him with stones without the host.
36 And all the Congregation brought him without the host, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
37 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they (J)make them fringes upon the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and put upon the fringes of the borders a ribbon of blue silk.
39 And ye shall have the fringes that when ye look upon them, ye may remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them: and that ye seek not after your own heart, nor after your own eyes, after the which ye go a [l]whoring;
40 That ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
41 I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord your God.
Footnotes
- Numbers 15:2 Into the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 15:3 Or, separate.
- Numbers 15:4 Read Exod. 29:40.
- Numbers 15:7 The liquor was so called, because it was poured on the thing that was offered.
- Numbers 15:9 Or, three Omers.
- Numbers 15:12 Every sacrifice of beasts must have their meat offering and drink offering according to this proportion.
- Numbers 15:20 Which is made of the first corn ye gather.
- Numbers 15:22 As by oversight or ignorance, read Lev. 4:2, 13.
- Numbers 15:24 Some read, from the eyes of the Congregation, that is, which is hid from the Congregation.
- Numbers 15:30 Hebrew, with an high hand, that is, in contempt of God.
- Numbers 15:31 He shall sustain the punishment of his sin.
- Numbers 15:39 By leaving God’s commandments and following your own fantasies.
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