UST NUM Chapter 15

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15 Yahweh told Moses, 2 “Tell this to the Israelite people: They will enter the area where they will live, which I will give to them. 3 While they live there, they will offer animals to me, either oxen or sheep, so that I will enjoy the smell of the smoke when they burn them. They may present them as wholly burned sacrifices or as any other kind of sacrifice. They may present them because they have made a solemn promise, or because they freely choose to do so, or because it is a yearly celebration. 4 In all of those cases, the people who offer the sacrifices must also offer grain and wine offerings to me. The grain offering must be about two liters of flour with about one liter of olive oil in it. 5 The wine offering must be about one liter of wine. Those are the grain and wine offerings that they must offer when they offer one male sheep as a wholly burned sacrifice or as any other kind of sacrifice. 6 When they offer a ram, the grain offering must be about four liters of flour with about one and one-fourth liters of olive oil in it. 7 The wine offering must be about one and one-fourth liters of wine. When they offer those things, I will enjoy the smell of the smoke when they burn them. 8 Here are the grain and wine offerings for when they offer a young bull as a wholly burned sacrifice or as any other kind of sacrifice. They may offer it as a fellowship sacrifice or because they made a solemn promise. 9 The grain offering for the young bull must be about six liters of flour with about two liters of olive oil in it. 10 The wine offering must be about two liters of wine. When they give those things to me, I will enjoy the smell of the smoke when they burn them. 11 Those are the grain and wine offerings for each ox, ram, and male lamb or male goat that they offer. 12 Each animal must have its appropriate grain and wine offerings, no matter how many they offer. 13 All the Israelites must follow those instructions when they offer animals to me. I will enjoy the smell of the smoke when they burn them. 14 Suppose that foreigners or anyone else who lives among the Israelites at any time want to offer animals to me so that I will enjoy the smell of the smoke when they burn them. In that case, they must follow the same instructions that the Israelites follow. 15 The whole community must follow the same instructions in my presence. That includes both the Israelites and the foreigners who live among them. These instructions always apply to both groups and their descendants. 16 The Israelites and the foreigners who live among them must follow these exact same instructions.” 17 Yahweh told Moses, 18 “Tell this to the Israelite people: They will enter the area where I will take them. 19 While they are there, they will eat what they grow from that land. When they do, they must dedicate a special contribution to me. 20 They must dedicate some of the first batch of dough that they make each year as this special contribution. They must make this dough into thick bread. When they dedicate the thick bread, it is like when farmers dedicate some of the first grain that they have harvested. 21 Both the Israelites and their descendants must dedicate to me some of the first batch of dough that they make each year. 22 Sometimes, the Israelites will accidentally disobey something that I have told you that I command. 23 That includes everything that I commanded them and their descendants through you, which applies at the time when I commanded it and from then on. 24 In that case, as long as they disobeyed accidentally and the community did not know about it, the community must offer sacrifices. They must offer one young bull as a wholly burned sacrifice, along with its grain and wine offerings. They must follow the instructions for those offerings. I will enjoy the smell of the smoke when they burn them. They must also offer one male goat as a purifying sacrifice. 25 When the priest offers those sacrifices, I will accept them to remove what the Israelite community did that was wrong. I will pardon the Israelites. I will do that because they disobeyed accidentally, because they offered the bull and its grain and wine offerings to me, and because they offered the male goat as a purifying sacrifice in my presence. 26 Because everyone disobeyed accidentally, I will pardon the whole Israelite community and the foreigners who live among them. 27 Now suppose that a single person disobeys accidentally. That person must offer a female goat that is one year old as a purifying sacrifice. 28 When the priest offers that sacrifice, I will accept it to remove what that person accidentally did wrong in my presence. I will pardon that person. 29 The Israelites and the foreigners who live among them must follow the same instructions when someone disobeys accidentally. 30 On the other hand, suppose that someone disobeys intentionally and defiantly, whether that person is an Israelite or a foreigner. In that case, that person has insulted me. The other Israelites must drive that person out from among them. 31 They must do that because that person treated what I said disrespectfully and disobeyed what I commanded. The other Israelites must completely drive that person out from among them. I will punish that person for what he or she did wrong.” 32 One day, while the Israelites were in the desolate area, some of them noticed a man who was collecting firewood on the Sabbath day. 33 Those who noticed him doing that took him to Moses and Aaron and the rest of the community. 34 The leaders did not know how to punish him. So, they had some Israelites guard him until they learned what to do. 35 Then Yahweh told Moses, “The community must certainly execute that man by throwing stones at him outside the area where the Israelites set up their tents. 36 So the whole community took that man outside the area where the Israelites set up their tents. They killed him by throwing stones at him. They did exactly what Yahweh told Moses that they should do. 37 Yahweh told Moses, 38 “Tell this to the Israelite people: They and their descendants must attach to the corners of their clothes groups of threads that hang down. Each group of threads must include one thick, blue thread. 39 When they look at the these groups of threads, they will think about everything that I have commanded them to do, and that will help them to do it. That way, they will not try to do what they naturally desire, which causes them to faithlessly disobey me. 40 Instead, they will think about everything that I have commanded them to do, and they will do it. Then, they will be sacred and belong to me, their God. 41 I am Yahweh, their God. I am the one who led them out of Egypt. I did that so that I would be their God. So, I am Yahweh, their God.”

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