Various Sacrifices and Offerings

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

² “Speak to the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ and say to them, ‘When you come into the land of your dwellings that I am about to give to you,

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”

³ you will make an offering by fire for Yahweh from the cattle or from the flock, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a freewill offering or at your feasts, to make a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.

⁴ And the one who presents an offering¹ for Yahweh, he will present a grain offering of finely milled flour; a tenth will be mixed with a fourth of the liquid measure of oil;

1. Hebrew “his offering”

⁵ and you will add a fourth of wine for the libation upon the burnt offering, or to the sacrifice for each ram-lamb.

⁶ Or for the ram you will make a grain offering of two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed into a third of a liquid measure of oil.

⁷ You will present a third of the liquid measure of wine for the libation, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.

⁸ When you prepare ⌞a bull⌟¹ as a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or a fellowship offering for Yahweh,

1. Literally “a son of cattle”

⁹ you will present with ⌞the bull⌟¹ a grain offering of three-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with half a liquid measure of oil,

1. Literally “the son of the cattle”

¹⁰ and you will present half a liquid measure of wine as a libation, as an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.

¹¹ “ ‘This is how it should be done for each bull, or for the each ram, or for the small four-footed mammal, or ram-lambs, or goats.

¹² According to the number that you prepare, so should you do to each according to their number.

¹³ Every native must do these things to present an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.

¹⁴ If an alien dwells among you, or whoever is in your midst throughout your generations,¹ and prepares an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh, he should do as you do.

1. Hebrew “for your generations”

¹⁵ For the assembly, there will be one decree for you and for the alien who dwells among you; it is an eternal decree for all your generations. ⌞You as well as the alien⌟¹ will be ⌞before Yahweh⌟.²

1. Literally “like you like the alien”
2. Literally “in the presence of Yahweh”

¹⁶ There will be one law and one stipulation for you and for the alien dwelling among you.’ ”

¹⁷ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁸ “Speak to the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ and say to them, ‘When you come into the land to which I am about to bring you,

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”

¹⁹ whenever you eat from the food of the land, you will lift up a contribution to Yahweh.

²⁰ You must lift up a contribution of the first batch of your ring-shaped dough bread; you must lift it up as a contribution of the threshing floor.

²¹ You will give to Yahweh a contribution from the first of your dough throughout your generations.¹

1. Hebrew “for your generations”

²² “ ‘But if you go astray and you do not follow¹ all these commandments that Yahweh commanded to Moses,

1. Or “do”

²³ all that Yahweh commanded you by the hand of Moses¹ from the day that Yahweh commanded and beyond, throughout your generations,²

1. Or “through Moses”
2. Hebrew “for your generations”

²⁴ and if it was done unintentionally ⌞without the knowledge⌟¹ of the community, then the entire community must prepare one ⌞young bull⌟² as a burnt offering, as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh, and its grain offering and its libation, according to the stipulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.

1. Literally “from the eyes”
2. Literally “a bull a son of cattle”

²⁵ The priest will make atonement for all of the community of the ⌞Israelites⌟,¹ and ⌞they will be forgiven⌟² because it was unintentional; they will bring their offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, their sin offering ⌞before Yahweh⌟³ for their unintentional sin.

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”
2. Literally “it will be forgiven to them”
3. Literally “in the presence of Yahweh”

²⁶ All of the community of the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ will be forgiven, as well as the alien that dwells in their midst, because the whole community was involved in the unintentional wrong.

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”

²⁷ “ ‘If one person sins unintentionally, that person will present a female goat ⌞in its first year⌟¹ as a sin offering.

1. Literally “a daughter of a year”

²⁸ And the priest will make atonement for the person who ⌞sinned unintentionally⌟¹ ⌞before Yahweh⌟,² to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

1. Literally “sinned unintentionally when sinning an unintentional wrong”
2. Literally “in the presence of Yahweh”

²⁹ For the native among the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ and the alien that dwells in their midst, there will be one law for anyone who commits an unintentional wrong.

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”

³⁰ But the one ⌞who acts presumptuously⌟¹ from among the native or alien blasphemes against Yahweh, and that person must be cut off from the midst of the people.

1. Literally “who acts with a high hand”

³¹ Because he despised the word of Yahweh and broke his command, that person will be surely cut off and bear the guilt.’ ”

Violation of the Sabbath

³² When the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ were in the desert, they found a man who was gathering wood on the day of the Sabbath.

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”

³³ The ones who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and to all the community.

³⁴ And they put him under watch because it was not made clear what should be done to him.

³⁵ And Yahweh said to Moses, “Surely the man must be put to death by stoning him; all the community must stone him with stones from outside the camp.”

³⁶ So the entire community brought him out to a place outside the camp, and ⌞they stoned him to death⌟¹ just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

1. Literally “they stoned him with stones and he died”

Garment Fringes

³⁷ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

³⁸ “Speak to the ⌞Israelites⌟,¹ and tell them to make for themselves tassels² on the hems of their garments throughout their generations³ and to put a blue cord on the tassel of the hem.

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”
2. Hebrew “tassel”
3. Hebrew “for their generations”

³⁹ You will have a tassel ⌞for you to look at⌟¹ and remember all the commands of Yahweh and do them, and not follow ⌞after the unfaithfulness of your own heart and eyes⌟,²

1. Literally “and you will look at it”
2. Literally “after your heart and after your eyes, which you are unfaithful after them”

⁴⁰ so that you will remember and do all my commandments, and you will be holy for your God.

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