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Text -- Numbers 15:1-28 (NET)
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Sacrificial Rulings
15:1 The Lord spoke to Moses :
15:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land where you are to live , which I am giving you,
15:3 and you make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the flock (whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts ) to create a pleasing aroma to the Lord ,
15:4 then the one who presents his offering to the Lord must bring a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one fourth of a hin of olive oil .
15:5 You must also prepare one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering with the burnt offering or the sacrifice for each lamb .
15:6 Or for a ram , you must prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one-third of a hin of olive oil ,
15:7 and for a drink offering you must offer one-third of a hin of wine as a pleasing aroma to the Lord .
15:8 And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a peace offering to the Lord ,
15:9 then a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil must be presented with the young bull ,
15:10 and you must present as the drink offering half a hin of wine with the fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord .
15:11 This is what is to be done for each ox , or each ram , or each of the male lambs or the goats .
15:12 You must do so for each one according to the number that you prepare .
15:13 “‘Every native-born person must do these things in this way to present an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord .
15:14 If a resident foreigner is living with you – or whoever is among you in future generations – and prepares an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord , he must do it the same way you are to do it.
15:15 One statute must apply to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent statute for your future generations . You and the resident foreigner will be alike before the Lord .
15:16 One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”
Rules for First Fruits
15:17 The Lord spoke to Moses :
15:18 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land to which I am bringing you
15:19 and you eat some of the food of the land , you must offer up a raised offering to the Lord .
15:20 You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering ; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor , so you must offer it up .
15:21 You must give to the Lord some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations .
Rules for Unintentional Offenses
15:22 “‘If you sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses –
15:23 all that the Lord has commanded you by the authority of Moses , from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and continuing through your future generations –
15:24 then if anything is done unintentionally without the knowledge of the community , the whole community must prepare one young bull for a burnt offering – for a pleasing aroma to the Lord – along with its grain offering and its customary drink offering , and one male goat for a purification offering.
15:25 And the priest is to make atonement for the whole community of the Israelites , and they will be forgiven , because it was unintentional and they have brought their offering , an offering made by fire to the Lord , and their purification offering before the Lord , for their unintentional offense.
15:26 And the whole community of the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them will be forgiven , since all the people were involved in the unintentional offense.
15:27 “‘If any person sins unintentionally , then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering .
15:28 And the priest must make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally – when he sins unintentionally before the Lord – to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Exodus |
Offerings |
Vows |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 |
Flour |
STRANGER AND SOJOURNER (IN THE OLD TESTAMENT) |
Ignorance |
Measure |
FIRST-FRUITS |
LORD'S SUPPER; (EUCHARIST) |
Atonement |
Wine |
GENESIS, 1-2 |
Dough |
Firstfruits |
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES |
GOAT |
SACRIFICE |
Heave offering |
CONGREGATION |
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NET Notes -> Num 15:1; Num 15:2; Num 15:2; Num 15:4; Num 15:4; Num 15:5; Num 15:5; Num 15:9; Num 15:11; Num 15:14; Num 15:14; Num 15:14; Num 15:14; Num 15:15; Num 15:15; Num 15:15; Num 15:18; Num 15:19; Num 15:19; Num 15:20; Num 15:22; Num 15:22; Num 15:23; Num 15:24; Num 15:24; Num 15:25; Num 15:25; Num 15:26; Num 15:27
NET Notes: Num 15:1 The wilderness wandering officially having begun, these rules were then given for the people to be used when they finally entered the land. That they ...
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NET Notes: Num 15:2 The Hebrew participle here has the futur instans use of the participle, expressing that something is going to take place. It is not imminent, but it i...
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NET Notes: Num 15:4 Obviously, as the wording of the text affirms, this kind of offering would be made after they were in the land and able to produce the grain and oil f...
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NET Notes: Num 15:9 The text changes from direct address here to the third person form of the verb. If the MT is correct, then to make a smooth translation it would need ...
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NET Notes: Num 15:14 The imperfect tenses must reflect the responsibility to comply with the law, and so the classifications of instruction or obligation may be applied.
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NET Notes: Num 15:18 The relative clause is literally, “which I am causing you to enter there.” The final adverb is resumptive, and must be joined with the rel...
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NET Notes: Num 15:20 Or “the first of your dough.” The phrase is not very clear. N. H. Snaith thinks it means a batch of loaves from the kneading trough –...
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NET Notes: Num 15:22 The verb is the plural imperfect; the sin discussed here is a sin committed by the community, or the larger part of the community.
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NET Notes: Num 15:26 Again, rather than translate literally “and it shall be forgiven [to] them” (all the community), one could say, “they (all the commu...
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