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Laws for Canaan

¹ Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,² "^(C1)Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land ^(F1)where you are going to live, which I am giving you,³ and you make ^(C1)an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to ^(F1)(C2)fulfill a special vow, or as a ^(F2)voluntary offering or at your ^(C3)appointed times, to make a ^(C4)soothing aroma to the LORD from the herd or from the flock,⁴ 'then ^(C1)the one who presents his offering shall present to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ^(F1)ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a ^(F2)hin of oil,⁵ and you shall prepare wine for the drink offering, a fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for ^(C1)each lamb.⁶ '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;⁷ and for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine as a soothing aroma to the LORD.⁸ 'And when you prepare ^(C1)a bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to ^(F1)fulfill a special vow, or for peace offerings to the LORD,⁹ 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;¹⁰ and you shall offer as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD.

¹¹ 'This is how it shall be done for each ox, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the goats.¹² 'According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do for each one according to their number.¹³ 'Everyone who is a native shall do these things in this way, in presenting an offering by fire as a soothing aroma to the LORD.

Law for the Stranger

¹⁷ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,¹⁸ "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land where I am bringing you,¹⁹ then it shall be, that when you eat from the ^(F1)(C1)food of the land, you shall lift up an ^(F2)offering to the LORD.²⁰ '^(C1)Of the first of your ^(F1)dough you shall lift up a loaf as an ^(F2)offering; as ^(C2)an ^(F2)offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.²¹ 'From the first of your ^(F1)dough you shall give to the LORD an ^(F2)offering throughout your generations.

²² 'But when you ^(C1)unintentionally do wrong and fail to ^(F1)comply with all these commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses,²³ that is, all that the LORD has commanded you ^(F1)through Moses from the day that the LORD gave commandments and onward, throughout your generations,²⁴ then it shall be, if it is done ^(C1)unintentionally, ^(F1)without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one bull as a burnt offering, as a soothing aroma to the LORD, ^(C2)with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat as a sin offering.²⁵ 'Then ^(C1)the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they will be forgiven; for it was an unintentional wrong, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their unintentional wrong.²⁶ 'So all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, as well as the stranger who resides among them, for guilt was attributed to all the people through an ^(C1)unintentional wrong.

²⁷ 'Also, if one person sins ^(C1)unintentionally, then he shall offer a one-year-old female goat as a sin offering.²⁸ 'And ^(C1)the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who goes astray by an unintentional sin, making atonement for him ^(F1)so that he may be forgiven.²⁹ 'You shall have one law for the native among the sons of Israel and for the stranger who resides among them, for one who does anything wrong unintentionally.³⁰ 'But the person who does wrong ^(F1)(C1)defiantly, whether he is a native or a stranger, that one is blaspheming the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.³¹ 'Since he has ^(C1)despised the word of the LORD and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; ^(C2)his ^(F1)guilt will be on him.'"

Sabbath-breaking Punished

³² Now while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man ^(C1)gathering wood on the Sabbath day.³³ And those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation;³⁴ and they placed him in custody, ^(C1)because it had not been decided what should be done to him.³⁵ Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must be put to death; ^(C1)all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp."³⁶ So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him ^(F1)to death with stones, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³⁷ The LORD also spoke to Moses, saying,³⁸ "Speak to the sons of Israel and tell them that they shall make for themselves ^(C1)tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a ^(F1)violet thread.³⁹ "It shall be a tassel for you ^(F1)to look at and ^(C1)remember all the commandments of the LORD, so that you will do them and not ^(F2)follow your own heart and your own eyes, ^(F3)which led you to prostitute yourselves,⁴⁰ so that you will remember and do all My commandments and ^(C1)be holy to your God.⁴¹ "I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD your God."