Numbers 15
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Numbers 15:3-16

3you will offer special gifts as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. These gifts may take the form of a burnt offering, a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, a voluntary offering, or an offering at any of your annual festivals, and they may be taken from your herds of cattle or your flocks of sheep and goats.

4When you present these offerings, you must also give the Lord a grain offering of two quarts of choice flour mixed with one quart of olive oil.

5For each lamb offered as a burnt offering or a special sacrifice, you must also present one quart of wine as a liquid offering.

6“If the sacrifice is a ram, give a grain offering of four quarts of choice flour mixed with a third of a gallon of olive oil,

7and give a third of a gallon of wine as a liquid offering. This will be a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

8“When you present a young bull as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the Lord,

9you must also give a grain offering of six quarts of choice flour mixed with two quarts of olive oil,

10and give two quarts of wine as a liquid offering. This will be a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

11“Each sacrifice of a bull, ram, lamb, or young goat should be prepared in this way.

12Follow these instructions with each offering you present.

13All of you native-born Israelites must follow these instructions when you offer a special gift as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

14And if any foreigners visit you or live among you and want to present a special gift as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, they must follow these same procedures.

15Native-born Israelites and foreigners are equal before the Lord and are subject to the same decrees. This is a permanent law for you, to be observed from generation to generation.

16The same instructions and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigners living among you.”

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