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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Numbers 15 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/numbers/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Numbers 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/14.htm" title="Numbers 14">◄</a> Numbers 15 <a href="../numbers/16.htm" title="Numbers 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Laws about Sacrifice</h3><p class="par"><span class="v4_15_1"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.1" class="v4_15_1">1</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> gave Moses </span><span class="v4_15_2"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.2" class="v4_15_2">2</span>the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them. </span><span class="v4_15_3"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.3" class="v4_15_3">3</span>A bull, a ram, a sheep, or a goat may be presented to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> as 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 the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v4_15_4"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.4-Num.15.5" class="v4_15_4">4-5</span>Whoever presents a sheep or a goat as a burnt offering to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is 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. </span><span class="v4_15_6"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.6" class="v4_15_6">6</span>When a ram is offered, 4 pounds of flour mixed with 3 pints of olive oil are to be presented as a grain offering, </span><span class="v4_15_7"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.7" class="v4_15_7">7</span>together with 3 pints of wine. The odor of these sacrifices is pleasing to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v4_15_8"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.8" class="v4_15_8">8</span>When a bull is offered to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice in fulfillment of a vow or as a fellowship offering, </span><span class="v4_15_9"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.9" class="v4_15_9">9</span>a grain offering of 6 pounds of flour mixed with 4 pints of olive oil is to be presented, </span><span class="v4_15_10"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.10" class="v4_15_10">10</span>together with 4 pints of wine. The odor of this sacrifice is pleasing to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_15_11"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.11" class="v4_15_11">11</span>That is what shall be offered with each bull, ram, sheep, or goat. </span><span class="v4_15_12"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.12" class="v4_15_12">12</span>When more than one animal is offered, the accompanying offering is to be increased proportionately. </span><span class="v4_15_13"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.13" class="v4_15_13">13</span>All native Israelites are to do this when they present a food offering, an odor pleasing to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v4_15_14"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.14" class="v4_15_14">14</span>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 the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, they are to observe the same regulations. </span><span class="v4_15_15"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.15" class="v4_15_15">15</span>For all time to come, the same<a href="#fn" id="link_Num.15.15!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> rules are binding on you and on the foreigners who live among you. You and they are alike in the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s sight; </span><span class="v4_15_16"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.16" class="v4_15_16">16</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Num.15.16!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> the same laws and regulations apply to you and to them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_15_17"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.17" class="v4_15_17">17</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> gave Moses </span><span class="v4_15_18"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.18" class="v4_15_18">18</span>the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them. </span><span class="v4_15_19"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.19" class="v4_15_19">19</span>When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v4_15_20"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.20" class="v4_15_20">20</span>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 the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the grain you thresh. </span><span class="v4_15_21"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.21" class="v4_15_21">21</span>For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> from the bread you bake.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_15_22"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.22" class="v4_15_22">22</span>But suppose someone unintentionally fails to keep some of these regulations which the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has given Moses. </span><span class="v4_15_23"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.23" class="v4_15_23">23</span>And suppose that in the future the community fails to do everything that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> commanded through Moses. </span><span class="v4_15_24"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.24" class="v4_15_24">24</span>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 the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, with the proper grain offering and wine offering. In addition, they are to offer a male goat as a sin offering. </span><span class="v4_15_25"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.25" class="v4_15_25">25</span>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 the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v4_15_26"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.26" class="v4_15_26">26</span>The whole community of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven, because everyone was involved in the mistake.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_15_27"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.27" class="v4_15_27">27</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Num.15.27!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> If any of you sin unintentionally, you are to offer a one-year-old female goat as a sin offering. </span><span class="v4_15_28"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.28" class="v4_15_28">28</span>At the altar the priest shall perform the ritual of purification to purify you from your sin, and you will be forgiven. </span><span class="v4_15_29"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.29" class="v4_15_29">29</span>The same regulation applies to all who unintentionally commit a sin, whether they are native Israelites or resident foreigners.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_15_30"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.30" class="v4_15_30">30</span>But any who sin deliberately, whether they are natives or foreigners, are guilty of treating the <span class="nd">Lord</span> with contempt, and they shall be put to death, </span><span class="v4_15_31"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.31" class="v4_15_31">31</span>because they have rejected what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said and have deliberately broken one of his commands. They are responsible for their own death.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Man Who Broke the Sabbath</h3><p class="par"><span class="v4_15_32"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.32" class="v4_15_32">32</span>Once, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath. </span><span class="v4_15_33"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.33" class="v4_15_33">33</span>He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community, </span><span class="v4_15_34"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.34" class="v4_15_34">34</span>and was put under guard, because it was not clear what should be done with him. </span><span class="v4_15_35"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.35" class="v4_15_35">35</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Moses, “The man must be put to death; the whole community is to stone him to death outside the camp.” </span><span class="v4_15_36"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.36" class="v4_15_36">36</span>So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had commanded.</span></p><h3 class="s">Rules about Tassels</h3><p class="par"><span class="v4_15_37"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.37" class="v4_15_37">37</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> commanded Moses </span><span class="v4_15_38"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.38" class="v4_15_38">38</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Num.15.38!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> 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. </span><span class="v4_15_39"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.39" class="v4_15_39">39</span>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. </span><span class="v4_15_40"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.40" class="v4_15_40">40</span>The tassels will remind you to keep all my commands, and you will belong completely to me. </span><span class="v4_15_41"><span class="reftext" id="Num.15.41" class="v4_15_41">41</span>I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God; I brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.15: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the same; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the congregation the same.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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