Numbers 15

New King James Version

Laws of Grain and Drink Offerings

15 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²^(A)“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you, ³and you ^(B)make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice, ^(C)to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or ^(D)in your appointed feasts, to make a ^(E)sweet^[a] aroma to the Lord, from the herd or the flock, ⁴then ^(F)he who presents his offering to the Lord shall bring ^(G)a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed ^(H)with one-fourth of a hin of oil; ⁵^(I)and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering you shall prepare with the burnt offering or the sacrifice, for each ^(J)lamb. ⁶^(K)Or for a ram you shall prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil; ⁷and as a drink offering you shall offer one-third of a hin of wine as a sweet aroma to the Lord. ⁸And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering, or as a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a ^(L)peace offering to the Lord, ⁹then shall be offered ^(M)with the young bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil; ¹⁰and you shall bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord.

¹¹^(N)‘Thus it shall be done for each young bull, for each ram, or for each lamb or young goat. ¹²According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do with everyone according to their number. ¹³All who are native-born shall do these things in this manner, in presenting an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord. ¹⁴And if a stranger ^[b]dwells with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and would present an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord, just as you do, so shall he do. ¹⁵^(O)One ^[c]ordinance shall be for you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwells with you, an ordinance forever throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord. ¹⁶One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you.’ ”

¹⁷Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸^(P)“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land to which I bring you, ¹⁹then it will be, when you eat of ^(Q)the bread of the land, that you shall offer up a heave offering to the Lord. ²⁰^(R)You shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground meal as a heave offering; as ^(S)a heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up. ²¹Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to the Lord a heave offering throughout your generations.

Laws Concerning Unintentional Sin

²²^(T)‘If you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses— ²³all that the Lord has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day the Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations— ²⁴then it will be, ^(U)if it is unintentionally committed, ^[d]without the knowledge of the congregation, that the whole congregation shall offer one young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the Lord, ^(V)with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and ^(W)one kid of the goats as a sin offering. ²⁵^(X)So the priest shall make atonement for the whole congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was unintentional; they shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their unintended sin. ²⁶It shall be forgiven the whole congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger who dwells among them, because all the people did it unintentionally.

²⁷‘And ^(Y)if a person sins unintentionally, then he shall bring a female goat in its first year as a sin offering. ²⁸^(Z)So the priest shall make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally, when he sins unintentionally before the Lord, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. ²⁹^(AA)You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel and for the stranger who dwells among them.

Law Concerning Presumptuous Sin

³⁰^(AB)‘But the person who does anything ^[e]presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one ^[f]brings reproach on the Lord, and he shall be ^[g]cut off from among his people. ³¹Because he has ^(AC)despised the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his ^[h]guilt shall be upon him.’ ”

Penalty for Violating the Sabbath^(AD)

³²Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, ^(AE)they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. ³³And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. ³⁴They put him ^(AF)under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him.

³⁵Then the Lord said to Moses, ^(AG)“The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall ^(AH)stone him with stones outside the camp.” ³⁶So, as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.

Tassels on Garments

³⁷Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁸“Speak to the children of Israel: Tell ^(AI)them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. ³⁹And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and ^(AJ)remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you ^(AK)may not ^(AL)follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined, ⁴⁰and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be ^(AM)holy for your God. ⁴¹I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”

Footnotes

Numbers 15:3 pleasing
Numbers 15:14 As a resident alien
Numbers 15:15 statute
Numbers 15:24 Lit. away from the eyes
Numbers 15:30 defiantly, lit. with a high hand
Numbers 15:30 blasphemes
Numbers 15:30 Put to death
Numbers 15:31 iniquity

Isaiah 54

New King James Version

A Perpetual Covenant of Peace

54 “Sing, O ^(A)barren,
You who have not borne!
Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,
You who have not labored with child!
For more are the children of the desolate
Than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.
²“Enlarge^(B) the place of your tent,
And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;
Lengthen your cords,
And strengthen your stakes.
³For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will ^(C)inherit the nations,
And make the desolate cities inhabited.

⁴“Do^(D) not fear, for you will not be ashamed;
Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame;
For you will forget the shame of your youth,
And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
⁵^(E)For your Maker is your husband,
The Lord of hosts is His name;
And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel;
He is called ^(F)the God of the whole earth.
⁶For the Lord ^(G)has called you
Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Like a youthful wife when you were refused,”
Says your God.
⁷“For^(H) a mere moment I have forsaken you,
But with great mercies ^(I)I will gather you.
⁸With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment;
^(J)But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,”
Says the Lord, your Redeemer.

⁹“For this is like the waters of ^(K)Noah to Me;
For as I have sworn
That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth,
So have I sworn
That I would not be angry with ^(L)you, nor rebuke you.
¹⁰For ^(M)the mountains shall depart
And the hills be removed,
^(N)But My kindness shall not depart from you,
Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,”
Says the Lord, who has mercy on you.

¹¹“O you afflicted one,
Tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
Behold, I will lay your stones with ^(O)colorful gems,
And lay your foundations with sapphires.
¹²I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
Your gates of crystal,
And all your walls of precious stones.
¹³All your children shall be ^(P)taught by the Lord,
And ^(Q)great shall be the peace of your children.
¹⁴In righteousness you shall be established;
You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;
And from terror, for it shall not come near you.
¹⁵Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me.
Whoever assembles against you shall ^(R)fall for your sake.

¹⁶“Behold, I have created the blacksmith
Who blows the coals in the fire,
Who brings forth an ^[a]instrument for his work;
And I have created the ^[b]spoiler to destroy.
¹⁷No weapon formed against you shall ^(S)prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
^(T)And their righteousness is from Me,”
Says the Lord.