Numbers 15

Revised Geneva Translation

15 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

² “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,

³ ‘and make an offering by fire to the LORD—a Burnt Offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or a Free Offering or in your Feasts—to make a sweet savor to the LORD—from the herd or from the flock,

⁴ ‘then let him who offers his offering to the LORD bring a Meat Offering of one tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mingled with one fourth of a hin of oil.

⁵ ‘Also, you shall prepare one fourth of a hin of wine, to be poured on a lamb for the Burnt Offering or any offering.

⁶ And for a ram, you shall prepare for a Meat Offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mingled with one third of a hin of oil.

⁷ ‘And for a Drink Offering, you shall offer one third of a hin of wine, for a sweet savor to the LORD.

⁸ ‘And when you prepare a bullock for a Burnt Offering, or for a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or a Peace Offering to the LORD,

⁹ ‘then let him offer with the bullock a Meat Offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mingled with half a hin of oil.

¹⁰ ‘And you shall bring for a Drink Offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire of a sweet savor to the LORD.

¹¹ ‘Thus shall it be done for a bullock or for a ram or for a lamb or for a kid.

¹² ‘According to the number that you prepare, so shall you do to everyone, according to their number.

¹³ ‘All who are born in the country shall do these things in this way, to offer an offering made by fire of sweet savor to the LORD.

¹⁴ ‘And if a stranger sojourns with you (or whoever is among you in your generations) and will make an Offering by fire of a sweet savor to the LORD, as you do, so he shall do.

¹⁵ ‘One Ordinance shall be both for you of the Congregation and also for the stranger who dwells with you, an Ordinance forever in your generations. As you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

¹⁶ ‘One Law and one manner shall serve both for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.’”

¹⁷ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁸ “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When you have come into the land to which I bring you,

¹⁹ ‘and when you shall eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer a Heave Offering to the LORD.

²⁰ ‘You shall offer up a cake from the first of your dough, for a Heave Offering. As the Heave Offering of the barn, so you shall lift it up.

²¹ ‘From the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD a Heave Offering, in your generations.

²² ‘And if you have erred, and not observed all these Commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses—

²³ ‘all that the LORD has Commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the first day that the LORD Commanded Moses and hence forward among your generations—

²⁴ ‘and if this is committed unintentionally by the Congregation, then all the Congregation shall give a bullock for a Burnt Offering, for a sweet savor to the LORD, with its Meat Offering and Drink Offering (according to the manner) and a male goat for a Sin Offering.

²⁵ ‘And the Priest shall make an atonement for all the Congregation of the children of Israel. And it shall be forgiven them, for it is unintentional. And they shall bring their offering for an offering made by fire to the LORD, and their Sin Offering before the LORD, for their ignorance.

²⁶ ‘Then all the Congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who dwells among them. For all the people were in ignorance.

²⁷ ‘But if any one person sins through ignorance, then he shall bring a female goat of a year old for a Sin Offering.

²⁸ ‘And the Priest shall make an atonement for the ignorant person, when he sins by ignorance before the LORD, to make reconciliation for him. And it shall be forgiven him.

²⁹ ‘He who is born among the children of Israel, and the stranger who dwells among them, shall both have one Law, whoever sins by ignorance.

³⁰ ‘But the person who does anything treacherously, whether he is born in the land or a stranger, the same blasphemes the LORD. Therefore, that person shall be cut off from among his people,

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 upon him.’”

³² And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man who gathered sticks upon the Sabbath Day.

³³ And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and to Aaron and to all the Congregation.

³⁴ And they put him in prison, for it was not declared what should be done to him.

³⁵ Then the LORD said to Moses, “This man shall die the death. And let all the multitude stone him with stones outside the camp.”

³⁶ And all the Congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones. And he died, as the LORD had Commanded Moses.

³⁷ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

³⁸ “Speak to the children of Israel and tell them to make themselves fringes upon the borders of their garments throughout their generations. And put a ribbon of blue silk upon the fringes of the borders.

³⁹ “And you shall have the fringes so that when you look upon them you may remember all the Commandments of the LORD and do them; and that you will not seek after your own heart or after your own eyes, after which you fornicate.

⁴⁰ “So that you may remember and do all My Commandments and be holy to your God.

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.”