Numbers 15
Numbers 15:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Numbers 15:2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,
Numbers 15:3 and you offer to Yahveh from the herd or from the flock a fire offering or an ascending offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a solemn pledge or as a spontaneous voluntary offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pacifying[1] aroma for Yahveh,
Numbers 15:4 then the one who brings his offering will offer to Yahveh a tribute offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil;
Numbers 15:5 and you will offer with the ascending offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.
Numbers 15:6 Or for a ram, you will offer for a tribute offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.
Numbers 15:7 For the drink offering, you will offer a third of a hin of wine, a pacifying aroma to Yahveh.
Numbers 15:8 And when you offer a bull as an ascending offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a solemn pledge or for offering for healthy relationships to Yahveh,
Numbers 15:9 then one will offer with the bull a tribute offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil.
Numbers 15:10 And you will offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a fire offering, a pacifying aroma to Yahveh.
Numbers 15:11 “Thus it will be done for each bull or ram, or each lamb or young goat.
Numbers 15:12 As many as you offer, so will you do with each one, as many as there are.
Numbers 15:13 Every native Israelite will do these things in this way, in offering a fire offering, with a pacifying aroma to Yahveh.
Numbers 15:14 And if a foreign guest is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a fire offering, with a pacifying aroma to Yahveh, he will do as you do.
Numbers 15:15 For the collected assembly, there will be one prescription for you and for the foreign guest who sojourns with you, a permanent prescription throughout your generations. You and the sojourner will be alike at the face of Yahveh.
Numbers 15:16 One instruction and one rule will be for you and for the foreign guest who sojourns with you.”
Numbers 15:17 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said
Numbers 15:18 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you
Numbers 15:19 and when you eat of the bread of the land, you will present a contribution to Yahveh.
Numbers 15:20 Of the firstfruits[2] of your dough, you will present a loaf as a contribution, like a contribution from the threshing floor, so will you present it.
Numbers 15:21 Some of the firstfruits of your dough you will give to Yahveh as a contribution throughout your generations.
Numbers 15:22 “But if you inadvertently make a failure, and do not observe all these commands that Yahveh has spoken to Moses,
Numbers 15:23 all that Yahveh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahveh gave a command, and onward throughout your generations,
Numbers 15:24 then if it was done inadvertently without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation will offer one bull from the herd for an ascending offering, a pacifying aroma to Yahveh, with its tribute offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a failure offering.
Numbers 15:25 And the priest will provide reconciliation for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they will be forgiven, because it was a failure, and they have brought their offering, a fire offering to Yahveh, and their failure offering to the face of Yahveh for their failure.
Numbers 15:26 And all the congregation of the people of Israel will be forgiven, and the foreign guest who lives temporarily among them, because the whole population was involved in the failure.
Numbers 15:27 “If one throat inadvertently sins, he will offer a female goat a year old for a failure offering.
Numbers 15:28 And the priest will provide reconciliation to the face of Yahveh for the throat who makes a failure, when he sins inadvertently, to provide reconciliation for him, and he will be forgiven.
Numbers 15:29 You will have one instruction for him who does anything inadvertently, for him who is native among the people of Israel, and for the foreign guest who lives temporarily among them.
Numbers 15:30 But the throat who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native or a foreign guest, reviles Yahveh, and that throat will be eliminated from among his people.
Numbers 15:31 Because he has despised the word of Yahveh and has broken his command, that throat will be utterly eliminated; his violation will be on him.”
Numbers 15:32 While the people of Israel were in the open country, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
Numbers 15:33 And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation.
Numbers 15:34 They put him in custody because it had not been made clear what should be done to him.
Numbers 15:35 And Yahveh said to Moses, “The man will be put to death; all the congregation will stone him with stones outside the camp.”
Numbers 15:36 And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as Yahveh commanded Moses.
Numbers 15:37 Yahveh said to Moses,
Numbers 15:38 “Speak to the people of Israel and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner.
Numbers 15:39 And it will be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of Yahveh, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to prostitute yourselves for.
Numbers 15:40 So you will remember and do all my commandments and be sacred to your God.
Numbers 15:41 I am Yahveh your God
[1] נִיחוֹחַ = pacifying. Numbers 15:3, 7, 10, 13, 14, 24; 18:17; 28:2, 6, 8, 13, 24, 27; 29:2, 6, 8, 13, 36.
[2]רֵאשִׁית = firstfruits. Numbers 15:20-21; 18:12; 24:20.
Numbers 15 quotes:
“Suddenly and without warning, we find ourselves back in the classroom. Having received the word that they now have forty years of wandering still ahead of them, and having been forced to accept the without-parole nature of this sentence by their quick defeat at the hands of the Amalekites and the Canaanites, the Israelites decide to use this time constructively with some “continuing ed” in holy living. Like a battalion on maneuvers when the rain sets in, God’s people park their wagons, pitch their tents, and return to the role of students, which they learned so well back at Mount Sinai.”
Boyce Richard Nelson. Leviticus and Numbers. 1st ed. Westminster John Knox Press 2008. p. 169.
“The central message of this new chapter is that, despite their disobedience and rebellion, a patient and merciful God was speaking again to his people. He kept the lines of communication open as he talked to them about undeserved grace (1-2), sacrificial worship (3-21), promised forgiveness (22-29) and necessary obedience (30-40).”
Brown Raymond. The Message of Numbers : Journey to the Promised Land. InterVarsity Press 2002. P. 131.
“Moses knew that the people of Israel were just human beings, who were prone to forget God. So Moses gave them special instructions to help them keep God in mind.”
Gutzke, Manford George. Plain Talk on Leviticus and Numbers. Zondervan Pub. House., 1981. p. 97.
“The Lord gives guidance on further offerings and a test of obedience.”
Martin, Glen, and Max E. Anders. Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers. Broadman & Holman, 2002. p. 318.
Numbers 15 links:
a community walk
ACST 50- The Sacrifice
Dead souls, dying souls
distinctive loyalty
God of grace and mercy
harmless or horrible?
immutable God
perspective change
TIME TO TASSEL
The NUMBERS shelf in Jeff’s library
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