Numbers 15:14-16
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14 An alien who lives with you or who takes up permanent residence among you and wishes to offer an offering by fire,[a] a pleasing odor to the Lord, shall do as you do. 15 As for the assembly, there shall be for both you and the resident alien a single statute, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you and the alien shall be alike before the Lord.(A) 16 You and the alien who resides with you shall have the same law and the same ordinance.”
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Numbers 15:14-16
New English Translation
14 If a resident foreigner is living[a] with you—or whoever is among you[b] in future generations[c]—and prepares an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he must do it the same way you are to do it.[d] 15 One statute must apply[e] to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent[f] statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike[g] before the Lord. 16 One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”
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- Numbers 15:14 tn The word גּוּר (gur) was traditionally translated “to sojourn,” i.e., to live temporarily in a land. Here the two words are from the root: “if a sojourner sojourns.”
- Numbers 15:14 tn Heb “in your midst.”
- Numbers 15:14 tn The Hebrew text just has “to your generations,” but it means in the future.
- Numbers 15:14 tn The imperfect tenses must reflect the responsibility to comply with the law, and so the classifications of instruction or obligation may be applied.
- Numbers 15:15 tn The word “apply” is supplied in the translation.
- Numbers 15:15 tn Or “a statute forever.”
- Numbers 15:15 tn Heb “as you, as [so] the alien.”
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