Numbers 15:18-41

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

19then, when you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering (heave offering) to the Lord.

20You 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.

21From the first of your dough (ground grain) you shall give to the Lord an offering throughout your generations.

22‘But when you unintentionally fail and do not observe all these commandments, which the Lord has spoken to Moses,

23even all that the Lord has commanded you through Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandments and onward throughout your generations,

24then 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.

25Then 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.

26So 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.

27‘Also if one person sins unintentionally, then he shall offer a female goat one year old as a sin offering.

28The 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.

29You 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.

30But 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].

31Because 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.’ ”

32Now while the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man who was gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

33Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation;

34and they put him in custody, because it had not been explained [by God] what should be done to him.

35Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall certainly be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”

36So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

37The Lord said to Moses,

38“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.

39It 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,

40so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be holy (set apart) to your God.

41I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.”