Numbers 15:1   (Read all of Numbers 15)

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 15:2   (Read all of Numbers 15)

"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'After you enter the land I am giving you as a home

Numbers 15:3   (Read all of Numbers 15)

and you present to the Lord food offerings from the herd or the flock, as an aroma pleasing to the Lord-whether burnt offerings or sacrifices, for special vows or freewill offerings or festival offerings-

Numbers 15:4   (Read all of Numbers 15)

then the person who brings an offering shall present to the Lord a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of olive oil.

Numbers 15:5   (Read all of Numbers 15)

With each lamb for the burnt offering or the sacrifice, prepare a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering.

Numbers 15:8   (Read all of Numbers 15)

" 'When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, for a special vow or a fellowship offering to the Lord,

Numbers 15:15   (Read all of Numbers 15)

The community is to have the same rules for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the Lord:

Numbers 15:16   (Read all of Numbers 15)

The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing among you.' "

Numbers 15:17   (Read all of Numbers 15)

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 15:18   (Read all of Numbers 15)

"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land to which I am taking you

Numbers 15:24   (Read all of Numbers 15)

and if this is done unintentionally without the community being aware of it, then the whole community is to offer a young bull for a burnt offering as an aroma pleasing to the Lord, along with its prescribed grain offering and drink offering, and a male goat for a sin offering.

Numbers 15:25   (Read all of Numbers 15)

The priest is to make atonement for the whole Israelite community, and they will be forgiven, for it was not intentional and they have presented to the Lord for their wrong a food offering and a sin offering.

Numbers 15:27   (Read all of Numbers 15)

" 'But if just one person sins unintentionally, that person must bring a year-old female goat for a sin offering.

Numbers 15:28   (Read all of Numbers 15)

The priest is to make atonement before the Lord for the one who erred by sinning unintentionally, and when atonement has been made, that person will be forgiven.

Numbers 15:29   (Read all of Numbers 15)

One and the same law applies to everyone who sins unintentionally, whether a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.

Numbers 15:30   (Read all of Numbers 15)

" 'But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or foreigner, blasphemes the Lord and must be cut off from the people of Israel.

Numbers 15:31   (Read all of Numbers 15)

Because they have despised the Lord's word and broken his commands, they must surely be cut off; their guilt remains on them.' "

Numbers 15:32   (Read all of Numbers 15)

While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

Numbers 15:34   (Read all of Numbers 15)

and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him.

Numbers 15:35   (Read all of Numbers 15)

Then the Lord said to Moses, "The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp."

Numbers 15:36   (Read all of Numbers 15)

So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 15:37   (Read all of Numbers 15)

The Lord said to Moses,

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"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.

Numbers 15:39   (Read all of Numbers 15)

You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.