Numbers 15:11-16

15:11 This is what is to be done ¹  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 ²  with you – or whoever is among you ³  in future generations ⁴  – 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. ⁵  15:15 One statute must apply ⁶  to you who belong to the congregation and to the resident foreigner who is living among you, as a permanent ⁷  statute for your future generations. You and the resident foreigner will be alike ⁸  before the Lord. 15:16 One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”

[15:11]  ¹ tn Heb “according to thus shall it be done.”

[15:14]  ² 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.”

[15:14]  ³ tn Heb “in your midst.”

[15:14]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text just has “to your generations,” but it means in the future.

[15:14]  ⁵ tn The imperfect tenses must reflect the responsibility to comply with the law, and so the classifications of instruction or obligation may be applied.

[15:15]  ³ tn The word “apply” is supplied in the translation.

[15:15]  ⁴ tn Or “a statute forever.”

[15:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “as you, as [so] the alien.”