Numbers 15 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Laws About Sacrifices

Num 15:1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Num 15:2“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,

Num 15:3

Num 15:3and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock a food offering[fn] or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the LORD,

Num 15:4

Num 15:4then he who brings his offering shall offer to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah[fn] of fine flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin[fn] of oil;

Num 15:5

Num 15:5and you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.

Num 15:6

Num 15:6Or for a ram, you shall offer for a grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.

Num 15:7

Num 15:7And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Num 15:8

Num 15:8And when you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or for peace offerings to the LORD,

Num 15:9

Num 15:9then one shall offer with the bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil.

Num 15:10

Num 15:10And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Num 15:11

Num 15:11“Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each lamb or young goat.

Num 15:12

Num 15:12As many as you offer, so shall you do with each one, as many as there are.

Num 15:13

Num 15:13Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Num 15:14

Num 15:14And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he shall do as you do.

Num 15:15

Num 15:15For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the LORD.

Num 15:16

Num 15:16One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.”

Num 15:17

Num 15:17The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Num 15:18

Num 15:18“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you

Num 15:19

Num 15:19and when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the LORD.

Num 15:20

Num 15:20Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.

Num 15:21

Num 15:21Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD as a contribution throughout your generations.

Laws About Unintentional Sins

Num 15:22

Num 15:22“But if you sin unintentionally,[fn] and do not observe all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses,

Num 15:23

Num 15:23all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations,

Num 15:24

Num 15:24then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering.

Num 15:25

Num 15:25And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD for their mistake.

Num 15:26

Num 15:26And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.

Num 15:27

Num 15:27“If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

Num 15:28

Num 15:28And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

Num 15:29

Num 15:29You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them.

Num 15:30

Num 15:30But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

Num 15:31

Num 15:31Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.”

A Sabbathbreaker Executed

(Exo 31:12–17 )

Num 15:32

Num 15:32While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

Num 15:33

Num 15:33And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.

Num 15:34

Num 15:34They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him.

Num 15:35

Num 15:35And the LORD said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”

Num 15:36

Num 15:36And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Tassels on Garments

Num 15:37

Num 15:37The LORD said to Moses,

Num 15:38

Num 15:38“Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner.

Num 15:39

Num 15:39And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow[fn] after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.

Num 15:40

Num 15:40So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.

Num 15:41

Num 15:41I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD your God.”

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ESV Footnotes

(15:3)

Or an offering by fire; so throughout Numbers

(15:4)

An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters

(15:4)

A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters

(15:22)

Or by mistake; also verses 24, 27, 28, 29

(15:39)

Hebrew to spy out

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