4.Mose 15 | New International Reader’s Version

Other offerings

1 Here is what the LORD said to Moses. 2 ‘Say to the Israelites, “You are going to enter the land I am giving you as a home. 3 When you do, you will present food offerings to the LORD. The animals must come from your herd or flock. The smell of the offerings will please the LORD. They can be either burnt offerings or sacrifices. They can be either for special promises or for feast offerings. Or they can be for offerings you choose to give. 4 With each of the offerings, the person who brings it must present to the LORD a grain offering. It must be 1.5 kilograms of the finest flour. It must be mixed with a litre of olive oil. 5 Also prepare a litre of wine as a drink offering. You must present it with each lamb that you bring for the burnt offering or the sacrifice. 6 ‘ “Prepare a grain offering to present along with a ram. The grain offering must be 3 kilograms of the finest flour. It must be mixed with 1.5 litres of olive oil. 7 You must bring 1.5 litres of wine as a drink offering. Offer everything as a smell that pleases the LORD. 8 ‘ “Suppose you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice. You prepare it to keep a special promise to the LORD. Or you prepare it to present as a friendship offering. 9 Then bring a grain offering with the bull. The grain offering must be 4.5 kilograms of the finest flour. It must be mixed with 2 litres of olive oil. 10 Also bring 2 litres of wine as a drink offering. It will be a food offering. Its smell will please the LORD. 11 Each bull or ram must be prepared in the same way. Each lamb or young goat must also be prepared in that way. 12 Do it for each animal. Do it for as many animals as you prepare. 13 ‘ “Everyone in Israel must do those things in that way. He must do them when he presents a food offering. The smell of offerings like that pleases the LORD. 14 Everyone must always do what the law requires. It does not matter whether they are an outsider or anyone else living among you. They must do exactly as you do when they present a food offering. The smell of offerings like that pleases the LORD. 15 The community must have the same rules for you and for any outsider living among you. This law will last for all time to come. In the sight of the LORD, the law applies both to you and any outsider. 16 The same laws and rules will apply to you and to any outsider living among you.” ’ 17 The LORD said to Moses, 18 ‘Speak to the Israelites. Say to them, “You are going to enter the land I am taking you to. 19 You will eat its food. When you do, present part of it as an offering to the LORD. 20 Present a loaf made from the first flour you grind. Present it as an offering from the threshing-floor. 21 You must present the offering to the LORD. You must present it from the first corn you grind. You must do it for all time to come.

Offerings for sins that aren’t committed on purpose

22 ‘ “Suppose you as a community fail to keep any of the commands the LORD gave Moses. And suppose you do it without meaning to. 23 That applies to any of the commands the LORD told Moses to give you. And they are in effect from the day the LORD gave them and for all time to come. 24 Suppose the community sins without meaning to. And suppose they do not know they have sinned. Then the whole community must offer a young bull. They must sacrifice it for a burnt offering. Its smell will please the LORD. Along with it, they must offer its required grain offering and drink offering. They must also sacrifice a male goat for a sin offering. 25 With it the priest will pay for the sin of the whole community of Israel. Then they will be forgiven. They did not mean to commit that sin. And they have presented to the LORD a food offering for the wrong thing they did. They have brought a sin offering with it. 26 The LORD will forgive the whole community of Israel and the outsiders living among them. All the people had a part in the sin, even though they did not mean to do it. 27 ‘ “But suppose just one person sins without meaning to. Then that person must bring a female goat for a sin offering. It must be a year old. 28 With it the priest will pay for the person’s sin in front of the LORD. The priest will do it for the one who did wrong by sinning without meaning to. When the sin is paid for, that person will be forgiven. 29 The same law applies to everyone who sins without meaning to. It does not matter whether they are an Israelite or an outsider. 30 ‘ “But suppose someone sins on purpose. It does not matter whether they are an Israelite or an outsider. They speak evil things against the LORD. They must be separated from the community of Israel. 31 They have not respected what the LORD has said. They have broken the LORD’s commands. They must certainly be separated from the community. They are still guilty.” ’

A man works on the Sabbath day

32 The Israelites were in the desert. One Sabbath day, people saw a man gathering wood. 33 They brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole community. 34 They kept him under guard. It wasn’t clear what should be done to him. 35 Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘The man must die. The whole community must kill him by throwing stones at him. They must do it outside the camp.’ 36 So the people took the man outside the camp. There they killed him by throwing stones at him. They did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Tassels on clothes

37 The LORD said to Moses, 38 ‘Say to the Israelites, “You must make tassels on the corners of your clothes. A blue cord must be on each tassel. You must do it for all time to come. 39 You will have the tassels to look at. They will remind you to obey all the LORD’s commands. Then you will be faithful to him. You will not chase after what your own hearts and eyes wish for. 40 You will remember to obey all my commands. And you will be set apart for your God. 41 I am the LORD your God. I brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God.” ’

English Standard Version

Laws About Sacrifices

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 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, 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, 4 then he who brings his offering shall offer to the Lord a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah* of fine flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin* of oil; 5 and you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb. 6 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 pleasing aroma to the Lord. 8 And when you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or for peace offerings to the Lord, 9 then one shall offer 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 “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, 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 “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 the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the Lord. 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. 21 Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the Lord as a contribution throughout your generations.

Laws About Unintentional Sins

22 “But if you sin unintentionally,* 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 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, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering. 25 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 “If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. 28 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 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 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 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 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 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, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall 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 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, not to follow* after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after. 40 So you shall 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.”

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