Numbers 15

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

² ‘Tell this to the sons of Israel: “When you have arrived in the land where you are to live, the land I give to you,

³ and you make burnt offering to Yahweh either as a holocaust or as a sacrifice, whether in payment of a vow, or as a voluntary gift, or on the occasion of one of your solemn feasts – taking from your herds and flocks to make an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh-

⁴ the offerer must bring, as his personal gift to Yahweh, an oblation of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one quarter of a hin of oil.

⁵ You must also make a libation of wine, one quarter of a hin to each lamb, in addition to the holocaust or sacrifice.

⁶ For a ram, you must make an oblation of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil,

⁷ and a libation of one-third of a bin of wine, offering it as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh.

⁸ If you offer a bull as a holocaust or sacrifice, in payment of a vow or as a communion sacrifice for Yahweh,

⁹ you must offer in addition to the beast an oblation of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil,

¹⁰ and you must offer a libation of half a bin of wine, as a burnt offering, an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh.

¹¹ This must be done for every bull, every ram, every lamb or kid.

¹² Whatever the number of victims you have for sacrifice, you must do the same for each of them, however many there are.

¹³ “This must be done by every man of your own people when he makes a burnt offering, an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh.

¹⁴ Any stranger living among you, or among your descendants, will also make a burnt offering, an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh: just as you act, so must

¹⁵ the assembly,[*a] There shall be only one law for you and for the settler among you. This is a law that shall bind your descendants always: before Yahweh, you and the settler are alike.

¹⁶ There is to be one law only, and one statute for you and for the stranger who lives among you.”‘

¹⁷ Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

¹⁸ ‘Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: “When you have entered the land to which I am bringing you,

¹⁹ you must set aside a portion for Yahweh when you eat the bread of this country.

²⁰ You must set aside one loaf as the first-fruits of your meal; you must set this offering aside like the one set aside from your threshing.

²¹ You are to set aside for Yahweh a portion of the best of your meal. This applies to your descendants.

²² “If through inadvertence you fail in any of these commands that Yahweh has given to Moses

²³ (every single precept that Yahweh has laid on you through Moses, from the day he gave his commands and onwards to your descendants),

²⁴ this is what must be done: “If it is an inadvertence of the community, the community as a whole must make a holocaust of a young bull, an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh, with the prescribed accompanying oblation and libation, and a he-goat must be offered as a sacrifice for sin.

²⁵ The priest must perform the rite of atonement over the entire community of the sons of Israel, and pardon will be given, since it was an inadvertence. When they have brought their offering as a burnt offering to Yahweh, and have presented their sacrifice for sin before Yahweh to make amends for their inadvertence,

²⁶ pardon will be given to the entire community of the sons of Israel, as also to the stranger who lives among them, since the entire people has sinned through inadvertence.

²⁷ “If it is an individual who has sinned by inadvertence, he must offer a yearling kid in sacrifice for sin.

²⁸ The priest must perform the rite of atonement before Yahweh over the person who has gone astray by this sin of inadvertence; when the rite of atonement has been performed over him, he will be forgiven,

²⁹ whether he is a native, one of the sons of Israel, or a stranger living among them. There shall be only one law among you for the man who sins by inadvertence.

³⁰ “But the man who sins deliberately, whether native or stranger, outrages Yahweh himself. Such a man must be outlawed from his people;

³¹ he has despised the word of Yahweh and broken his command. This man must be entirely outlawed, since his sin is inseparable from him.”‘

³² While the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, a man was caught gathering wood on the sabbath day.

³³ Those who caught him gathering wood brought him before Moses, Aaron and the whole community.

³⁴ He was kept in custody, because the penalty he should undergo had not yet been fixed.

³⁵ Yahweh said to Moses, ‘This man must be put to death. The whole community must stone him outside the camp.’

³⁶ The whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him till he was dead, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³⁷ Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

³⁸ ‘Speak to the sons of Israel and tell them to put tassels on the hems of their garments, and to put a violet cord on this tassel at the hem.

³⁹ You must have a tassel, then, and the sight of it will remind you of all the commands of Yahweh. You are to put them into practice then, and no longer follow the desires of your heart and your eyes, which have led you to make wantons of yourselves.

⁴⁰ ‘This will remind you of all my commandments; put them into practice, and you will be consecrated to your God.

⁴¹ It is I, Yahweh your God, who have brought you out of the land of Egypt so that I may be your God, I Yahweh your God.’