Numbers 15:14-16

15:14 If a resident foreigner is living ¹  with you – or whoever is among you ²  in future generations ³  – 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. ⁴  15:15 One statute must apply ⁵  to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent ⁶  statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike ⁷  before the Lord. 15:16 One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”

¹ tn The word גּוּר (gur) was traditionally translated “to sojourn,” i.e., to live temporarily in a land. Here the two words are from the root: “if a sojourner sojourns.”

² tn Heb “in your midst.”

³ tn The Hebrew text just has “to your generations,” but it means in the future.

⁴ tn The imperfect tenses must reflect the responsibility to comply with the law, and so the classifications of instruction or obligation may be applied.

⁵ tn The word “apply” is supplied in the translation.

⁶ tn Or “a statute forever.”

⁷ tn Heb “as you, as [so] the alien.”