Numbers, 15

1. Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

1. The LORD said to Moses,

2. 'Speak to the Israelites and say: "When you have arrived in the country where you are to live and which I am giving to you,

2. "Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I give you,

3. and you burn food as an offering to Yahweh either as a burnt offering 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, from your herds and flocks as a smell pleasing to Yahweh:

3. and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock an offering by fire or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfil a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing odor to the LORD,

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

4. then he who brings his offering shall offer to the LORD a cereal offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil;

5. You will also make a libation of wine, one-quarter of a hin to each lamb, in addition to the burnt offering or sacrifice.

5. and wine for the drink offering, a fourth of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

6. For a ram, you will make a cereal offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil,

6. Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a cereal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil;

7. and a libation of one-third of a hin of wine as a smell pleasing to Yahweh.

7. and for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

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

8. And when you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to fulfil a vow, or for peace offerings to the LORD,

9. in addition to the animal you will offer a cereal offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil,

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

10. and you will offer a libation of half a hin of wine, as food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh.

10. and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

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

11. "Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each of the male lambs or the kids.

12. Whatever the number of victims you intend to offer, you will do the same for each of them, however many there are.

12. According to the number that you prepare, so shall you do with every one according to their number.

13. "Every citizen of the country will act in this way whenever he offers food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh;

13. All who are native shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

14. and if an alien residing with you or with your descendants intends to offer food burnt as a smell pleasing to Yahweh, he will do as you do.

14. And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or any one is among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to offer an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD, he shall do as you do.

15. There will be one law for you, members of the community, and the resident alien alike, a law binding your descendants for ever: before Yahweh you and the resident alien are no different.'

15. For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the sojourner be before the LORD.

16. One law, one statute, will apply for you and the resident alien." '

16. One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."

17. Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

17. The LORD said to Moses,

18. 'Speak to the Israelites and say: "When you have entered the country to which I am bringing you,

18. "Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land to which I bring you

19. you will set a portion aside for Yahweh when you eat that country's bread.

19. and when you eat of the food of the land, you shall present an offering to the LORD.

20. You will set one cake aside as the first-fruits of your dough; you will set this offering aside like the one set aside from your threshing.

20. Of the first of your coarse meal you shall present a cake as an offering; as an offering from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.

21. For all future generations you will set a portion of your dough aside for Yahweh.

21. Of the first of your coarse meal you shall give to the LORD an offering throughout your generations.

22. "If through inadvertence you fail in any of these orders which Yahweh has given to Moses

22. "But if you err, and do not observe all these commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses,

23. (whatever orders Yahweh has given you or your descendants through Moses, from the day when Yahweh gave his orders),

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

24. this is what must be done: "If it is an inadvertence on the part of the community, the community as a whole will offer a young bull as a burnt offering, as a smell pleasing to Yahweh, with the prescribed accompanying cereal offering and libation, and a he-goat as a sacrifice for sin.

24. then if it was done unwittingly without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the LORD, with its cereal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.

25. The priest will perform the rite of expiation for the entire community of Israelites, and they will be forgiven, since it was an inadvertence. Once they have brought their offering as food burnt for Yahweh, and have presented their sacrifice for sin before Yahweh to make amends for their inadvertence,

25. And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; because it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error.

26. the whole community of Israelites will be forgiven, as also the alien residing with them, since the entire people acted by inadvertence.

26. And 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 error.

27. "If it is an individual who has sinned by inadvertence, he will offer a yearling kid as a sacrifice for sin.

27. "If one person sins unwittingly, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

28. The priest will perform the rite of expiation before Yahweh for the person who has gone astray owing to this sin of inadvertence and, expiation having been made for him, he will be forgiven;

28. And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who commits an error, when he sins unwittingly, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

29. whether he is an Israelite citizen or a resident alien, you will have one law for anyone who sins by inadvertence.

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

30. "But the individual who acts deliberately, be he citizen or alien, commits an outrage against Yahweh, and such a man will be outlawed from his people.

30. But 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.

31. Since he has treated Yahweh's word with contempt and has disobeyed his order, such a man will be outlawed absolutely and will bear the consequences of his guilt." '

31. Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him."

32. While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was caught gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

32. While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.

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

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

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

34. They put him in custody, because it had not been made plain what should be done to him.

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

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

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

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

37. Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,

37. The LORD said to Moses,

38. 'Speak to the Israelites and tell them, for all generations to come, to put tassels on the hems of their clothes and work a violet thread into the tassel at the hem.

38. "Speak to the people of Israel, and bid them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put upon the tassel of each corner a cord of blue;

39. You will thus have a tassel, and the sight of it will remind you of all Yahweh's orders and how you are to put them into practice, and not follow the dictates of your own heart and eyes, which have led you to be unfaithful.

39. and it shall be to you a tassel to look upon and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to go after wantonly.

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

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

41. I, Yahweh your God, have brought you out of Egypt, to be your God, I, Yahweh 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."