Numbers 15

Laws About Sacrifices

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, x When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you, 3 and y you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock a food offering 1 or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, z to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or a at your appointed feasts, to make a b pleasing aroma to the Lord, 4 then c he who brings his offering shall offer to the Lord d a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah 2 of fine flour, e mixed with a quarter of a hin 3 of oil; 5 and you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of f wine for the drink offering for each lamb. 6 g 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. 7 And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a b pleasing aroma to the Lord. 8 And when you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to z fulfill a vow or for h peace offerings to the Lord, 9 then one shall offer i with the bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil. 10 And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

11 j "Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each lamb or young goat. 12 As many as you offer, so shall you do with each one, as many as there are. 13 Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 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. 15 For the assembly, k 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. 16 One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."

17 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 18 l "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you 19 and when you eat of m the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the Lord. 20 n Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a o contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it. 21 n Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the Lord as a contribution throughout your generations.

Laws About Unintentional Sins

22 p "But if you sin unintentionally, 4 and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses, 23 all that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations, 24 then if it was done unintentionally q 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, r with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and s one male goat for a sin offering. 25 t 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. 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.

27 u "If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. 28 v 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. 29 w 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. 30 x 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. 31 Because he has y 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

32 While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man z gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. 33 And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. 34 a They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. 35 And the Lord said to Moses, b "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall c stone him with stones outside the camp." 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

37 The Lord said to Moses, 38 "Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to d make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. 39 And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, e not to follow 5 after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined f to whore after. 40 So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be g holy to your God. 41 h 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."

  1. Cross References
    Numbers 15:18
    Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you
    Leviticus 23:10
    Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
    Deuteronomy 26:1
    When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it.
  2. Cross References
    Leviticus 1:2 - 3
    Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock.
  3. Cross References
    Leviticus 22:21
    And when anyone offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it.
    Leviticus 27:2
    Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons.
  4. Cross References
    Numbers 28:19
    But offer a food offering, a burnt offering to ...
    Numbers 28:27
    But offer a burnt offering, with a pleasing aro...
    Leviticus 23:8
    But you shall present a food offering to the Lo...
    Leviticus 23:12
    And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you sha...
    Leviticus 23:36
    For seven days you shall present food offerings...
    Deuteronomy 16:10
    Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the L...
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 29:18
    And burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. It is a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
    Leviticus 4:31
    And all its fat he shall remove, as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasing aroma to the Lord. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.
    Genesis 8:21
    And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
  6. Cross References
    Leviticus 2:1
    When anyone brings a grain offering as an offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it
    Leviticus 6:14
    And this is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord in front of the altar.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 29:40
    And with the first lamb a tenth seah of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
    Leviticus 23:13
    And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the Lord with a pleasing aroma, and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.
  8. Cross References
    Numbers 28:5
    Also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil.
    Leviticus 14:10
    And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
  9. Cross References
    Numbers 28:7
    Its drink offering shall be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the Holy Place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the Lord.
    Numbers 28:14
    Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.
  10. Cross References
    Numbers 28:12
    Also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram.
    Numbers 28:14
    Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.
  11. Cross References
    Numbers 15:3
    And you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock a food offering 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.
  12. Cross References
    Numbers 15:3
    And you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock a food offering 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.
  13. Cross References
    Leviticus 7:11
    And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the Lord.
  14. Cross References
    Numbers 28:12
    Also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram.
    Numbers 28:14
    Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.
    Leviticus 6:14 - 17
    And this is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord in front of the altar.
  15. Cross References
    Numbers 28:1
    The Lord spoke to Moses, saying.
  16. Cross References
    Numbers 15:29 - 30
    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.
    Numbers 9:14
    And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native.
    Exodus 12:49
    There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.
  17. Cross References
    Numbers 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.
  18. Cross References
    Joshua 5:11 - 12
    And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.
  19. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 26:2
    You shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.
    Deuteronomy 26:10
    And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O Lord, have given me.' And you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God.
    Nehemiah 10:37
    And to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.
    Ezekiel 44:30
    And the first of all the firstfruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, that a blessing may rest on your house.
  20. Cross References
    Leviticus 2:14
    If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain.
    Leviticus 23:10 - 17
    Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
  21. Cross References
    Numbers 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.
  22. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:2
    Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the Lord 's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them.
  23. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:13
    If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the Lord 's commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt.
  24. Cross References
    Numbers 15:8 - 10
    And when you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or for peace offerings to the Lord.
  25. Cross References
    Numbers 28:15
    Also one male goat for a sin offering to the Lord ; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
    Leviticus 4:23
    Or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish.
  26. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:20
    Thus shall he do with the bull. As he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
  27. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:27 - 28
    If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the Lord 's commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt.
  28. Cross References
    Leviticus 4:35
    And all its fat he shall remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on top of the Lord 's food offerings. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
  29. Cross References
    Numbers 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.
  30. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 17:12
    The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
    Psalms 19:13
    Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
    Hebrews 10:26
    For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.
  31. Cross References
    2 Samuel 12:9
    Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
    2 Chronicles 36:16
    But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.
    Proverbs 13:13
    Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded.
  32. Cross References
    Exodus 35:3
    You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.
    Exodus 20:8 - 9
    Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
  33. Cross References
    Leviticus 24:12
    And they put him in custody, till the will of the Lord should be clear to them.
  34. Cross References
    Exodus 31:14 - 15
    You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
  35. Cross References
    Leviticus 24:14 - 16
    Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
    Joshua 7:25
    And Joshua said, "Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today." And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
    1 Kings 21:13
    And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
    Acts 7:58
    Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
  36. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 22:12
    You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.
    Matthew 23:5
    They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long.
  37. Cross References
    Job 31:7
    If my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands.
    Ecclesiastes 11:9
    Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
    Ezekiel 6:9
    Then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
  38. Cross References
    Psalms 73:27
    For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
    Psalms 106:39
    Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
    Ezekiel 6:9
    Then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
  39. Cross References
    Leviticus 11:44
    For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
  40. Cross References
    Leviticus 22:33
    Who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord.
    Leviticus 20:8
    Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
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