Numbers 15
New King James Version

Laws of Grain and Drink Offerings

15 And theLordspoke 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 theLord, 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 theLord, from the herd or the flock,⁴then^(F)he who presents his offering to theLordshall bring^(G)a grain offering of one-tenthof an ephahof 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-tenthsof an ephahof 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 theLord.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 theLord,⁹then shall be offered^(M)with the young bull a grain offering of three-tenthsof an ephahof 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 theLord.

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 theLord.¹⁴And if a stranger^[b]dwells with you, or whoeverisamong you throughout your generations, and would present an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to theLord, just as you do, so shall he do.¹⁵^(O)One^[c]ordinanceshall befor you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwellswith you,an ordinance forever throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before theLord.¹⁶One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you.’ ”

¹⁷Again theLordspoke 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 theLord.²⁰^(R)You shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground mealasa 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 theLorda heave offering throughout your generations.

Laws Concerning Unintentional Sin

²²^(T)‘If you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments which theLordhas spoken to Moses—²³all that theLordhas commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day theLordgave 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 theLord,^(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 theLord, and their sin offering before theLord, 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 peopledid itunintentionally.

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 theLord, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.²⁹^(AA)You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally,forhim 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 doesanything^[e]presumptuously,whether he isnative-born or a stranger, that one^[f]brings reproach on theLord, and he shall be^[g]cut off from among his people.³¹Because he has^(AC)despised the word of theLord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his^[h]guiltshall beupon 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 theLordsaid 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 theLordcommanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.

Tassels on Garments

³⁷Again theLordspoke 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 theLordand do them, and that you^(AK)maynot^(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.⁴¹IamtheLordyour God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: IamtheLordyour God.”