Numbers 15
1GOD spoke to Moses, saying:
2Speak to the Israelite people and say to them:When you enter the land that I am giving you to settle in,
3and would present an offering by fire to GOD from the herd or from the flock, be it burnt offering or sacrifice, in fulfillment of a vow explicitly uttered, or as a freewill offering, or at your fixed occasions, producing an odor pleasing to GOD:
4The person who presents the offering to GOD shall bring as a grain offering: a tenth of a measure of choice flour with a quarter of a hin of oil mixed in.
5You shall also offer, with the burnt offering or the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of wine as a libation for each sheep.
6In the case of a ram, you shall present as a grain offering: two-tenths of a measure of choice flour with a third of a hin of oil mixed in;
7and a third of a hin of wine as a libation—as an offering of pleasing odor to GOD.
8And if it is an animal from the herd that you offer to GOD as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice, in fulfillment of a vow explicitly uttered or as an offering of well-being,
9there shall be offered a grain offering along with the animal: three-tenths of a measure of choice flour with half a hin of oil mixed in;
10and as libation you shall offer half a hin of wine—these being offerings by fire of pleasing odor to GOD.
11Thus shall be done with each ox, with each ram, and with any sheep or goat,
12as many as you offer; you shall do thus with each one, as many as there are.
13Every citizen, when presenting an offering by fire of pleasing odor to GOD, shall do so with them.
14And when, throughout the ages, a stranger who has taken up residence with you, or one who lives among you, would present an offering by fire of pleasing odor to GOD—as you do, so shall it be done by
15the rest of the congregation. uncertain. There shall be one law for you and for the resident stranger; it shall be a law for all time throughout the ages. You and the stranger shall be alike before GOD;
16the same ritual and the same rule shall apply to you and to the stranger who resides among you.
17GOD spoke to Moses, saying:
18Speak to the Israelite people and say to them:When you enter the land to which I am taking you
19and you eat of the bread of the land, you shall set some aside as a gift to GOD:
20as the first yield of your baking, uncertain. you shall set aside a loaf as a gift; you shall set it aside as a gift like the gift from the threshing floor.
21You shall make a gift to GOD from the first yield of your baking, throughout the ages.
22If you unwittingly fail to observe any one of the commandments that GOD has declared to Moses—
23anything that GOD has enjoined upon you through Moses—from the day that GOD gave the commandment and on through the ages:
24If this was done unwittingly, through the inadvertence of the community, the whole community shall present one bull of the herd as a burnt offering of pleasing odor to GOD, with its proper grain offering and libation, and one he-goat as a purgation offering.
25The priest shall make expiation for the whole Israelite community and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and for their error they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to GOD and their purgation offering before GOD.
26The whole Israelite community and the stranger residing among them shall be forgiven, for it happened to the entire people through error.
27In case it is an individual who has sinned unwittingly, that person shall offer a she-goat in its first year as a purgation offering.
28The priest shall make expiation before GOD on behalf of the person who erred, for having sinned unwittingly, making such expiation that forgiveness is granted.
29For the citizen among the Israelites and for the stranger who resides among them—you shall have one ritual for anyone who acts in error.
30But whether citizen or stranger, the person who acts defiantly reviles GOD; that person shall be cut off from among their people.
31Because GOD’s word was spurned and God’s commandment violated, that person shall be cut off—and bears the guilt.
32Once, when the Israelites were in the wilderness, a fellow was found gathering wood on the sabbath day.
33Those who found him as he was gathering wood brought him before Moses, Aaron, and the whole community.
34He was placed in custody, for it had not been specified what should be done to him.
35Then GOD said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death: the whole community shall pelt him with stones outside the camp.”
36So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death—as GOD had commanded Moses.
37GOD said to Moses as follows:
38Speak to the Israelite people and instruct them to make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout the ages; let them attach a cord of blue to the fringe at each corner.
39That shall be your fringe; look at it and recall all GOD’s commandments and observe them, so that you do not follow your heart and eyes in your urge to stray.
40Thus you shall be reminded to observe all My commandments and to be holy to your God.
41I am the ETERNAL your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I, your ETERNAL God.