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Numbers 15 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Laws About Sacrifices

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:2 - “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:3 - and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock a food offering[fn] or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:4 - then he who brings his offering shall offer to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah[fn] of fine flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin[fn] of oil;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:5 - and you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:6 - Or for a ram, you shall offer for a grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:7 - And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:8 - And when you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or for peace offerings to the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:9 - then one shall offer with the bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:10 - And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:11 - “Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each lamb or young goat.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:12 - As many as you offer, so shall you do with each one, as many as there are.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:13 - Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:14 - And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he shall do as you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:15 - For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:16 - One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:17 - The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:18 - “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:19 - and when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:20 - Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:21 - Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD as a contribution throughout your generations.

Laws About Unintentional Sins

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:22 - “But if you sin unintentionally,[fn] and do not observe all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:23 - all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:24 - then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:25 - And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD for their mistake.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:26 - And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:27 - “If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:28 - And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:29 - You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:30 - But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:31 - Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.”

A Sabbathbreaker Executed

(Exo 31:12–17 )
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32 - While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:33 - And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:34 - They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:35 - And the LORD said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:36 - And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Tassels on Garments

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:37 - The LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:38 - “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39 - And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow[fn] after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:40 - So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:41 - I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD your God.”
ESV Footnotes
Or an offering by fire; so throughout Numbers
An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters
Or by mistake; also verses 24, 27, 28, 29
Hebrew to spy out
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