Numbers Chapter 15 (KJV) – Read & Study

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¹And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,

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³And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:

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⁴Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.

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⁵And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.

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⁶Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.

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⁷And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

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⁸And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the LORD:

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⁹Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.

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¹⁰And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

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¹¹Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.

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¹²According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.

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¹³All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

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¹⁴And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.

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¹⁵One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

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¹⁶One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

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¹⁷And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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¹⁸Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,

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¹⁹Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.

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²⁰Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.

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²¹Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.

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²²And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,

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²³Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;

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²⁴Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

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²⁵And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:

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²⁶And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.

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²⁷And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.

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²⁸And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.

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²⁹Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

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³⁰But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

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³¹Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

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³²And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

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³³And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

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³⁴And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

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³⁵And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

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³⁶And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

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³⁷And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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³⁸Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:

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³⁹And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

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