Laws Surrounding Grain and Drink Offerings
Numbers 15, verse 1. Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Numbers 15, verse 2. “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you, Numbers 15, verse 3. and you make a whole burnt offering to the Lord, a whole burnt offering or a sacrifice, to make a great vow or a freewill offering, or in your feasts, to make a sweet aroma to the Lord, from the oxen or the sheep, Numbers 15, verse 4. then he who brings his gifts to the Lord shall bring a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour prepared with one-fourth of a hin of oil; Numbers 15, verse 5. and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering you shall offer with the whole burnt offering or the sacrifice, and for each male lamb you shall offer the same amounts, a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the Lord. Numbers 15, verse 6. Or for a ram, when you offer it either as a whole burnt offering or a sacrifice, you shall offer with it a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour prepared with one-third of a hin of oil; Numbers 15, verse 7. and as a drink offering you shall offer one-third of a hin of wine as a sweet aroma to the Lord. Numbers 15, verse 8. Now if from the oxen you offer a whole burnt offering or a sacrifice, to make a great vow or a peace offering to the Lord, Numbers 15, verse 9. then one shall offer with the young bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, prepared with half a hin of oil; Numbers 15, verse 10. and you shall bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as a burnt offering, a sweet aroma to the Lord. Numbers 15, verse 11. ‘Thus you shall do for each young bull, for each ram, or for each male lamb from the sheep or the goats. Numbers 15, verse 12. According to the number you offer, so you shall do with each one according to their number. Numbers 15, verse 13. All native-born shall do these things in this manner in presenting a burnt offering for a sweet aroma to the Lord. Numbers 15, verse 14. Now if a resident alien should come in among you in your land, or whoever may be among you in your generations, and he would offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the Lord, thus in the manner you offer, so shall the congregation offer to the Lord. Numbers 15, verse 15. There shall be one law for you and for the resident alien who dwells among you, a perpetual law throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the resident alien be before the Lord. Numbers 15, verse 16. There shall be one law and one ordinance for you and for the resident alien who dwells among you.’” Numbers 15, verse 17. Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Numbers 15, verse 18. “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When you come into the land into which I bring you, Numbers 15, verse 19. then it will be, when you eat from the bread of the land, that you shall take away the choice portion for the Lord. Numbers 15, verse 20. You shall separate the choice portion of your bread as the firstfruits of the dough, as a choice portion from the threshing floor; thus you shall separate it Numbers 15, verse 21. as the firstfruits of your dough, and you shall give to the Lord the choice portion throughout your generations.
Laws for Unintentional Sin
Numbers 15, verse 22. ‘Now when you utterly fail, and do not do all these commandments the Lord spoke to Moses— Numbers 15, verse 23. as the Lord ordered you by the hand of Moses, from the day the Lord ordered you and onward throughout your generations— Numbers 15, verse 24. then it will be, if it happened involuntarily out of sight of the congregation, the whole congregation shall offer one young bull without blemish from the oxen for a whole burnt offering, for a sweet aroma to the Lord, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male kid from the goats for a sin offering. Numbers 15, verse 25. So the priest shall make atonement for the whole congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be remitted them, for it was involuntary; they shall bring their gift, a burnt offering to the Lord, as their sin offering before the Lord concerning their involuntary sin. Numbers 15, verse 26. So it shall be remitted for the whole congregation of the children of Israel and the resident alien who dwells among them, because all the people did it involuntarily. Numbers 15, verse 27. Now if a soul should sin involuntarily, he shall bring a female goat in its first year for a sin offering. Numbers 15, verse 28. So the priest shall make atonement for the soul who acts involuntarily and sins involuntarily before the Lord, to make atonement for him. Numbers 15, verse 29. As for anyone who may have acted involuntarily, there shall be one law both for the native-born among the children of Israel and for the resident alien who dwells among them. Numbers 15, verse 30. ‘But the soul who may do something with a hand of arrogance, whether he is native-born or a resident alien, that one is provoking God; and he shall be utterly destroyed from among His people. Numbers 15, verse 31. Because he despised the word of the Lord and broke His commandments, that soul shall be destroyed; his guilt shall be upon him.’”
Penalty for Sabbath-breaking
Numbers 15, verse 32. Now while the children of Israel were in the desert, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. Numbers 15, verse 33. So those who found him gathering wood on the Sabbath day brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel. Numbers 15, verse 34. They put him under guard because they had not decided what to do with him. Numbers 15, verse 35. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Let the man be surely put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones.” Numbers 15, verse 36. So, as the Lord ordered Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones.
Tassels on Vestments
Numbers 15, verse 37. Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Numbers 15, verse 38. “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them to make tassels for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. Numbers 15, verse 39. Then it shall be, you shall have the tassels; and you shall look upon these, and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them; and you shall not turn aside after your minds and your eyes by which you prostitute yourselves, Numbers 15, verse 40. and may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God. Numbers 15, verse 41. I am the Lord your God, who brings you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”