Numbers 15 - Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Various Sacrifices and Offerings

15 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to the Israelites^[a] and say to them, ‘When you come into the land of your dwellings that I am about to give to you, ³ you will make an offering by fire for Yahweh from the cattle or from the flock, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a freewill offering or at your feasts, to make a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. ⁴ And the one who presents an offering^[b] for Yahweh, he will present a grain offering of finely milled flour; a tenth will be mixed with a fourth of the liquid measure of oil; ⁵ and you will add a fourth of wine for the libation upon the burnt offering, or to the sacrifice for each ram-lamb. ⁶ Or for the ram you will make a grain offering of two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed into a third of a liquid measure of oil. ⁷ You will present a third of the liquid measure of wine for the libation, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. ⁸ When you prepare a bull^[c] as a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or a fellowship offering for Yahweh, ⁹ you will present with the bull^[d] a grain offering of three-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with half a liquid measure of oil, ¹⁰ and you will present half a liquid measure of wine as a libation, as an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.

¹¹ “‘This is how it should be done for each bull, or for the each ram, or for the small four-footed mammal, or ram-lambs, or goats. ¹² According to the number that you prepare, so should you do to each according to their number. ¹³ Every native must do these things to present an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. ¹⁴ If an alien dwells among you, or whoever is in your midst throughout your generations,^[e] and prepares an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh, he should do as you do. ¹⁵ For the assembly, there will be one decree for you and for the alien who dwells among you; it is an eternal decree for all your generations. You as well as the alien^[f] will be before Yahweh.^{[g] 16} There will be one law and one stipulation for you and for the alien dwelling among you.’”

¹⁷ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸ “Speak to the Israelites^[h] and say to them, ‘When you come into the land to which I am about to bring you, ¹⁹ whenever you eat from the food of the land, you will lift up a contribution to Yahweh. ²⁰ You must lift up a contribution of the first batch of your ring-shaped dough bread; you must lift it up as a contribution of the threshing floor. ²¹ You will give to Yahweh a contribution from the first of your dough throughout your generations.^[i]

²² “‘But if you go astray and you do not follow^[j] all these commandments that Yahweh commanded to Moses, ²³ all that Yahweh commanded you by the hand of Moses^[k] from the day that Yahweh commanded and beyond, throughout your generations,^{[l] 24} and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge^[m] of the community, then the entire community must prepare one young bull^[n] as a burnt offering, as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh, and its grain offering and its libation, according to the stipulation, and one male goat as a sin offering. ²⁵ The priest will make atonement for all of the community of the Israelites,^[o] and they will be forgiven^[p] because it was unintentional; they will bring their offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, their sin offering before Yahweh^[q] for their unintentional sin. ²⁶ All of the community of the Israelites^[r] will be forgiven, as well as the alien that dwells in their midst, because the whole community was involved in the unintentional wrong.

²⁷ “‘If one person sins unintentionally, that person will present a female goat in its first year^[s] as a sin offering. ²⁸ And the priest will make atonement for the person who sinned unintentionally^[t] before Yahweh,^[u] to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. ²⁹ For the native among the Israelites^[v] and the alien that dwells in their midst, there will be one law for anyone who commits an unintentional wrong. ³⁰ But the one who acts presumptuously^[w] from among the native or alien blasphemes against Yahweh, and that person must be cut off from the midst of the people. ³¹ Because he despised the word of Yahweh and broke his command, that person will be surely cut off and bear the guilt.’”

Violation of the Sabbath

³² When the Israelites^[x] were in the desert, they found a man who was gathering wood on the day of the Sabbath. ³³ The ones who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and to all the community. ³⁴ And they put him under watch because it was not made clear what should be done to him. ³⁵ And Yahweh said to Moses, “Surely the man must be put to death by stoning him; all the community must stone him with stones from outside the camp.” ³⁶ So the entire community brought him out to a place outside the camp, and they stoned him to death^[y] just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Garment Fringes

³⁷ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁸ “Speak to the Israelites,^[z] and tell them to make for themselves tassels^[aa] on the hems of their garments throughout their generations^[ab] and to put a blue cord on the tassel of the hem. ³⁹ You will have a tassel for you to look at^[ac] and remember all the commands of Yahweh and do them, and not follow after the unfaithfulness of your own heart and eyes,^{[ad] 40} so that you will remember and do all my commandments, and you will be holy for your God. ⁴¹ I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.”

Footnotes

1. Numbers 15:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
2. Numbers 15:4 Hebrew “his offering”
3. Numbers 15:8 Literally “a son of cattle”
4. Numbers 15:9 Literally “the son of the cattle”
5. Numbers 15:14 Hebrew “for your generations”
6. Numbers 15:15 Literally “like you like the alien”
7. Numbers 15:15 Literally “in the presence of Yahweh”
8. Numbers 15:18 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
9. Numbers 15:21 Hebrew “for your generations”
10. Numbers 15:22 Or “do”
11. Numbers 15:23 Or “through Moses”
12. Numbers 15:23 Hebrew “for your generations”
13. Numbers 15:24 Literally “from the eyes”
14. Numbers 15:24 Literally “a bull a son of cattle”
15. Numbers 15:25 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
16. Numbers 15:25 Literally “it will be forgiven to them”
17. Numbers 15:25 Literally “in the presence of Yahweh”
18. Numbers 15:26 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
19. Numbers 15:27 Literally “a daughter of a year”
20. Numbers 15:28 Literally “sinned unintentionally when sinning an unintentional wrong”
21. Numbers 15:28 Literally “in the presence of Yahweh”
22. Numbers 15:29 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
23. Numbers 15:30 Literally “who acts with a high hand”
24. Numbers 15:32 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
25. Numbers 15:36 Literally “they stoned him with stones and he died”
26. Numbers 15:38 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
27. Numbers 15:38 Hebrew “tassel”
28. Numbers 15:38 Hebrew “for their generations”
29. Numbers 15:39 Literally “and you will look at it”
30. Numbers 15:39 Literally “after your heart and after your eyes, which you are unfaithful after them”