Thematic Bible




Numbers 15:1 (show verse)

Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 15:2 (show verse)

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When you come into the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,
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Numbers 15:3 (show verse)

then make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a special vow, or as a freewill offering or in your appointed feasts, to make a sweet and soothing aroma to the Lord, from the herd or from the flock.

Numbers 15:4 (show verse)

The one who presents his offering shall present to the Lord a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil,

Numbers 15:5 (show verse)

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

Numbers 15:6 (show verse)

Or for a ram you shall prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.

Numbers 15:7 (show verse)

And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, as a sweet and soothing aroma to the Lord.

Numbers 15:8 (show verse)

When you prepare a bull as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice, in fulfilling a special vow or peace offering to the Lord,

Numbers 15:9 (show verse)

then you shall offer with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;

Numbers 15:10 (show verse)

and you shall bring as the drink offering one-half a hin of wine as an offering by fire, as a sweet and soothing aroma to the Lord.

Numbers 15:11 (show verse)

‘Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the goats.

Numbers 15:12 (show verse)

According to the number that you prepare, so shall you do to everyone according to their number.

Numbers 15:13 (show verse)

All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in presenting an offering by fire, as a sweet and soothing aroma to the Lord.

Numbers 15:14 (show verse)

If a stranger lives as a resident alien with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to make an offering by fire, as a sweet and soothing aroma to the Lord, just as you do, so shall he do.

Numbers 15:15 (show verse)

As for the assembly, there shall be one [and the same] statute for you [of the congregation] and for the stranger who is a resident alien with you, a permanent statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.

Numbers 15:16 (show verse)

There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the stranger who lives with you as a resident alien.’”

Numbers 15:17 (show verse)

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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Numbers 15:18 (show verse)

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When you enter the land to which I am bringing you,

Numbers 15:19 (show verse)

then, when you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering (heave offering) to the Lord.

Numbers 15:20 (show verse)

You shall lift up a cake made of the first of your [ground grain which has been made into] dough as an offering [to the Lord]; as an offering from the threshing floor, so shall you lift it up.

Numbers 15:21 (show verse)

From the first of your dough (ground grain) you shall give to the Lord an offering throughout your generations.

Numbers 15:22 (show verse)

‘But when you unintentionally fail and do not observe all these commandments, which the Lord has spoken to Moses,
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Numbers 15:23 (show verse)

even all that the Lord has commanded you through Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandments and onward throughout your generations,
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Numbers 15:24 (show verse)

then it shall be, if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet and soothing aroma to the Lord, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat as a sin offering.

Numbers 15:25 (show verse)

Then the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they will be forgiven, for 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.

Numbers 15:26 (show verse)

So all the congregation of the Israelites will be forgiven as well as the stranger who lives among them as a resident alien, because all the people were involved in the error.
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Numbers 15:27 (show verse)

‘Also if one person sins unintentionally, then he shall offer a female goat one year old as a sin offering.
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Numbers 15:28 (show verse)

The priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who commits an error when he sins unintentionally, making atonement for him so that he may be forgiven.
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Numbers 15:29 (show verse)

You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, whether he is native-born among the Israelites or a stranger who is living among them as a resident alien.

Numbers 15:30 (show verse)

But the person who does [anything wrong] willfully and defiantly, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one is blaspheming the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people [excluding him from the atonement made for them].

Numbers 15:31 (show verse)

Because he has despised and rejected the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; [the responsibility for] his wickedness and guilt will be upon him.’”

Numbers 15:32 (show verse)

Now while the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man who was gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

Numbers 15:33 (show verse)

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation;

Numbers 15:34 (show verse)

and they put him in custody, because it had not been explained [by God] what should be done to him.

Numbers 15:35 (show verse)

Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall certainly be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”

Numbers 15:36 (show verse)

So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Numbers 15:37 (show verse)

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 15:38 (show verse)

“Speak to the sons of Israel and tell them to make for themselves tassels on the hems of their garments throughout their generations, and put a cord of blue on the tassel of each hem.

Numbers 15:39 (show verse)

It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, so that you do not follow after [the desires of] your own heart and eyes, [desires] after which you used to follow and play the prostitute,

Numbers 15:40 (show verse)

so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be holy (set apart) to your God.

Numbers 15:41 (show verse)

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.”