Numbers 15:18-41 — Legacy Standard Bible

¹⁸“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land where I am going to bring you, ¹⁹then it shall be, that when you eat of the ¹^,^afood of the land, you shall ²raise up ³a contribution offering to Yahweh. ²⁰‘^aOf the first of your ¹dough you shall ²raise up a cake as a ³contribution offering; as ^bthe ⁴contribution offering of the threshing floor, so you shall raise it up. ²¹‘From the first of your ¹dough you shall give to Yahweh a ²contribution offering throughout your generations.

²²‘But when you ^aunintentionally fail and do not observe all these commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to Moses, ²³even all that Yahweh has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day when Yahweh commanded and onward throughout your generations, ²⁴then it will be, if it is done ^aunintentionally, hidden from the sight of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to Yahweh, ^bwith its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the legal judgment, and one male goat for a sin offering. ²⁵‘Then ^athe priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they will be pardoned; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for their error. ²⁶‘So all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be pardoned, with the sojourner who sojourns among them, for it happened to all the people through ^aerror.

²⁷‘Also if one person sins ^aunintentionally, then he shall bring near a one year old female goat for a sin offering. ²⁸‘^aAnd the priest shall make atonement before Yahweh for the person who goes astray when he sins unintentionally, making atonement for him ¹that he may be pardoned. ²⁹‘You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourns among them. ³⁰‘But the person who does anything with a ^ahigh hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, that one is blaspheming Yahweh; and that person shall be cut off from among his people. ³¹‘Because he has ^adespised the word of Yahweh and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; ^bhis ¹guilt will be on him.’”

A Sabbath-breaker Put to Death

³²Now the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man ^agathering wood on the sabbath day. ³³And those who found him gathering wood brought him near to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation; ³⁴and they put him in ¹custody ^abecause it had not been ²declared what should be done to him. ³⁵Then Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death; ^aall the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.” ³⁶So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him ¹to death with stones, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³⁷Yahweh also spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁸“Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves ^atassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue. ³⁹“And it shall be a tassel for you ¹to look at and ^aremember all the commandments of Yahweh, so as to do them and not ²follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot, ⁴⁰so that you may remember to do all My commandments and ^abe holy to your God. ⁴¹“I am Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.”