The Father Welcomes Your Offerings
15 1 Our Father spoke to Moses, saying:
2 "Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When you come into the land where you will live, which I am giving to you, 3 and you make a fire offering to me — a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts — to produce a pleasing aroma for me from the herd or from the flock, 4 then the one who brings his offering shall present to me a grain offering of about two quarts of fine flour mixed with about one quart of oil. 5 And you shall prepare about one quart of wine for the drink offering with the burnt offering or the sacrifice, for each lamb.
6 Or for a ram, you shall prepare a grain offering of about four quarts of fine flour mixed with about one and a third quarts of oil, 7 and about one and a third quarts of wine for the drink offering. You shall present it as a pleasing aroma to me.
8 And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a special vow or as a peace offering to me, 9 then he shall bring with the young bull a grain offering of about six quarts of fine flour mixed with about two quarts of oil, 10 and you shall bring about two quarts of wine for the drink offering — a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to me. 11 This is how it shall be done for each bull or ram, and for each of the lambs or young goats. 12 Do the same for each one, however many you prepare.
13 Every native-born Israelite shall do these things in this way when bringing a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to me. 14 And if a foreigner staying with you, or whoever lives among you throughout your generations, makes a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to me, he shall do just as you do. 15 There shall be one statute for the assembly — for both you and the foreigner who stays with you — a lasting statute throughout your generations. The foreigner stands before me just as you do. 16 One law and one ordinance shall apply to you and to the foreigner who stays with you."
17 And our Father spoke to Moses, saying:
18 "Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When you come into the land to which I am bringing you, 19 then when you eat the produce of the land, you shall lift up a contribution to me. 20 From the first of your dough you shall lift up a loaf as a contribution, just as you lift up the contribution from the threshing floor. 21 From the first of your dough you shall give a contribution to me throughout your generations.
Our Father Covers Unintentional Sin
22 "And when you stray and fail to do all these commandments that I have spoken to Moses — 23 all that I have commanded you through Moses, from the day I gave the command and onward throughout your generations — 24 then if it was done unintentionally, without the knowledge of the congregation, the whole congregation shall offer one young bull as a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to me, with its grain offering and its drink offering according to the ordinance, and one male goat as a sin offering. 25 And the priest shall make atonement for the whole congregation of the children of Israel, and they will be forgiven, because it was unintentional and they have brought their offering — a fire offering to me — and their sin offering before me for their unintentional wrong. 26 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel will be forgiven, along with the foreigner who stays among them, because all the people were involved in the unintentional wrong.
27 "And if one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a year-old female goat as a sin offering. 28 And the priest shall make atonement before me for the person who strays by sinning unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. 29 For the native-born among the children of Israel and for the foreigner who stays among them, there shall be one law for the one who acts unintentionally.
30 "But the person who acts defiantly, with a high hand — whether native-born or foreigner — reviles me, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he has despised my word and broken my commandment, that person shall surely be cut off; his guilt remains upon him." 1 1 v31 To be 'cut off from his people' was the covenant's most severe penalty: permanent exclusion from Israel.
Sabbath Defiance and Its Consequence
32 While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 33 And those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to the whole congregation. 34 They kept him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him.
35 And our Father said to Moses, "The man must surely be put to death; the whole congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp."
36 So the whole congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died, just as our Father had commanded Moses.
Tassels to Remember Our Father
37 And our Father said to Moses, saying:
38 "Speak to the children of Israel and tell them to make tassels for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel at each corner. 2 2 v38 Tassels — knotted fringes worn on the corners of the garment — were a daily, visible reminder to live by our Father's commands; faithful Israelites wore them for centuries. 39 It shall be a tassel for you to look at, so that you may remember all my commandments and do them, and not follow your own heart and your own eyes, which lead you to be unfaithful. 40 This way you will remember and do all my commandments, and you will be holy to me. 41 I am your Father, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your Father. I am your Father.