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.”
Numbers 15:14-16
World English Bible
14 If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, as you do, so he shall do. 15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so the foreigner shall be before Yahweh. 16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”
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