Laws about Sacrifice
1 TheLordgave Moses
2 the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them.
3 A bull, a ram, a sheep, or a goat may be presented to theLordas a burnt offering or as a sacrifice in fulfillment of a vow or as a freewill offering or as an offering at your regular religious festivals; the odor of these food offerings is pleasing to theLord.
4-5 Whoever presents a sheep or a goat as a burnt offering to theLordis to bring with each animal 2 pounds of flour mixed with 2 pints of olive oil as a grain offering, together with 2 pints of wine.
6 When a ram is offered, 4 pounds of flour mixed with 3 pints of olive oil are to be presented as a grain offering,
7 together with 3 pints of wine. The odor of these sacrifices is pleasing to theLord.
8 When a bull is offered to theLordas a burnt offering or as a sacrifice in fulfillment of a vow or as a fellowship offering,
9 a grain offering of 6 pounds of flour mixed with 4 pints of olive oil is to be presented,
10 together with 4 pints of wine. The odor of this sacrifice is pleasing to theLord.
11 That is what shall be offered with each bull, ram, sheep, or goat.
12 When more than one animal is offered, the accompanying offering is to be increased proportionately.
13 All native Israelites are to do this when they present a food offering, an odor pleasing to theLord.
14 And if at any time foreigners living among you, whether on a temporary or a permanent basis, make a food offering, an odor that pleases theLord, they are to observe the same regulations.
15 For all time to come, the samerules are binding on you and on the foreigners who live among you. You and they are alike in theLord’s sight;
16 the same laws and regulations apply to you and to them.
17 TheLordgave Moses
18 the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them.
19 When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to theLord.
20 When you bake bread, the first loaf of the first bread made from the new grain is to be presented as a special contribution to theLord. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the grain you thresh.
21 For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to theLordfrom the bread you bake.
22 But suppose someone unintentionally fails to keep some of these regulations which theLordhas given Moses.
23 And suppose that in the future the community fails to do everything that theLordcommanded through Moses.
24 If the mistake was made because of the ignorance of the community, they are to offer a bull as a burnt offering, an odor that pleases theLord, with the proper grain offering and wine offering. In addition, they are to offer a male goat as a sin offering.
25 The priest shall perform the ritual of purification for the community, and they will be forgiven, because the mistake was unintentional and they brought their sin offering as a food offering to theLord.
26 The whole community of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven, because everyone was involved in the mistake.
27 If any of you sin unintentionally, you are to offer a one-year-old female goat as a sin offering.
28 At the altar the priest shall perform the ritual of purification to purify you from your sin, and you will be forgiven.
29 The same regulation applies to all who unintentionally commit a sin, whether they are native Israelites or resident foreigners.
30 But any who sin deliberately, whether they are natives or foreigners, are guilty of treating theLordwith contempt, and they shall be put to death,
31 because they have rejected what theLordsaid and have deliberately broken one of his commands. They are responsible for their own death.
The Man Who Broke the Sabbath
32 Once, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath.
33 He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community,
34 and was put under guard, because it was not clear what should be done with him.
35 Then theLordsaid to Moses, “The man must be put to death; the whole community is to stone him to death outside the camp.”
36 So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as theLordhad commanded.
Rules about Tassels
37 TheLordcommanded Moses
38 to say to the people of Israel: “Make tassels on the corners of your garments and put a blue cord on each tassel. You are to do this for all time to come.
39 The tassels will serve as reminders, and each time you see them you will remember all my commands and obey them; then you will not turn away from me and follow your own wishes and desires.
40 The tassels will remind you to keep all my commands, and you will belong completely to me.
41 I am theLordyour God; I brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am theLord.”
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