Numbers 15 - New King James Version (NKJV)

Laws of Grain and Drink Offerings

15 And the Lord spoke 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, ³ and you ^(B)make an offering by fire to the Lord, 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 the Lord, from the herd or the flock, ⁴ then ^(F)he who presents his offering to the Lord shall bring ^(G)a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of 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-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil; ⁷ and as a drink offering you shall offer one-third of a hin of wine as a sweet aroma to the Lord. ⁸ And 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 the Lord, ⁹ then shall be offered ^(M)with the young bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil; ¹⁰ and you shall bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord.

^{11 (N)}‘Thus it shall be done for each young bull, for each ram, or for each lamb or young goat. ¹² According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do with everyone according to their number. ¹³ All who are native-born shall do these things in this manner, in presenting an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord. ¹⁴ And if a stranger ^[b]dwells with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and would present an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord, just as you do, so shall he do. ^{15 (O)}One ^[c]ordinance shall be for you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwells with you, an ordinance forever throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord. ¹⁶ One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you.’ ”

¹⁷ Again the Lord spoke 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, ¹⁹ then it will be, when you eat of ^(Q)the bread of the land, that you shall offer up a heave offering to the Lord. ^{20 (R)}You shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground meal as a heave offering; as ^(S)a heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up. ²¹ Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to the Lord a heave offering throughout your generations.

Laws Concerning Unintentional Sin

^{22 (T)}‘If you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses— ²³ all that the Lord has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day the Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations— ²⁴ then 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 the Lord, ^(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 the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their unintended sin. ²⁶ It shall be forgiven the whole congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger who dwells among them, because all the people did it unintentionally.

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 the Lord, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. ^{29 (AA)}You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, for him 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 does anything ^[e]presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one ^[f]brings reproach on the Lord, and he shall be ^[g]cut off from among his people. ³¹ Because he has ^(AC)despised the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his ^[h]guilt shall be upon him.’ ”

Penalty for Violating the Sabbath^(AD)

³² Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, ^(AE)they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. ³³ And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. ³⁴ They put him ^(AF)under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him.

³⁵ Then the Lord said to Moses, ^(AG)“The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall ^(AH)stone him with stones outside the camp.” ³⁶ So, as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.

Tassels on Garments

³⁷ Again the Lord spoke 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. ³⁹ And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and ^(AJ)remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you ^(AK)may not ^(AL)follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined, ⁴⁰ and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be ^(AM)holy for your God. ⁴¹ I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”

Footnotes

1. Numbers 15:3 pleasing
2. Numbers 15:14 As a resident alien
3. Numbers 15:15 statute
4. Numbers 15:24 Lit. away from the eyes
5. Numbers 15:30 defiantly, lit. with a high hand
6. Numbers 15:30 blasphemes
7. Numbers 15:30 Put to death
8. Numbers 15:31 iniquity

Cross references

1. Numbers 15:2 : Lev. 23:10; Num. 15:18; Deut. 7:1
2. Numbers 15:3 : Lev. 1:2, 3
3. Numbers 15:3 : Lev. 7:16; 22:18, 21
4. Numbers 15:3 : Lev. 23:2, 8, 12, 38; Num. 28:18, 19, 27; Deut. 16:10
5. Numbers 15:3 : Gen. 8:21; Ex. 29:18; Lev. 1:9
6. Numbers 15:4 : Lev. 2:1; 6:14
7. Numbers 15:4 : Ex. 29:40; Lev. 23:13
8. Numbers 15:4 : Lev. 14:10; Num. 28:5
9. Numbers 15:5 : Num. 28:7, 14
10. Numbers 15:5 : Lev. 1:10; 3:6; Num. 15:11; 28:4, 5
11. Numbers 15:6 : Num. 28:12, 14
12. Numbers 15:8 : Lev. 7:11
13. Numbers 15:9 : Num. 28:12, 14
14. Numbers 15:11 : Num. 28
15. Numbers 15:15 : Ex. 12:49; Num. 9:14; 15:29
16. Numbers 15:18 : Num. 15:2; Deut. 26:1
17. Numbers 15:19 : Josh. 5:11, 12
18. Numbers 15:20 : Ex. 34:26; Lev. 23:10, 14, 17; Deut. 26:2, 10; Prov. 3:9, 10
19. Numbers 15:20 : Lev. 2:14; 23:10, 16
20. Numbers 15:22 : Lev. 4:2
21. Numbers 15:24 : Lev. 4:13
22. Numbers 15:24 : Num. 15:8–10
23. Numbers 15:24 : Lev. 4:23
24. Numbers 15:25 : Lev. 4:20; [Heb. 2:17]
25. Numbers 15:27 : Lev. 4:27–31
26. Numbers 15:28 : Lev. 4:35
27. Numbers 15:29 : Num. 15:15
28. Numbers 15:30 : Num. 14:40–44; Deut. 1:43; 17:12; Ps. 19:13; Heb. 10:26
29. Numbers 15:31 : 2 Sam. 12:9; Prov. 13:13
30. Numbers 15:32 : Ex. 31:12–17
31. Numbers 15:32 : Ex. 31:14, 15; 35:2, 3
32. Numbers 15:34 : Lev. 24:12
33. Numbers 15:35 : Ex. 31:14, 15
34. Numbers 15:35 : Lev. 24:14; Deut. 21:21; 1 Kin. 21:13; Acts 7:58
35. Numbers 15:38 : Deut. 22:12; Matt. 23:5
36. Numbers 15:39 : Ps. 103:18
37. Numbers 15:39 : Deut. 29:19
38. Numbers 15:39 : Ps. 73:27; 106:39; James 4:4
39. Numbers 15:40 : [Lev. 11:44, 45; Rom. 12:1; Col. 1:22; 1 Pet. 1:15, 16]