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The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the people of Israel and tell them that when they come into the land I am giving them, if they offer a fire sacrifice to me, whether it is a burnt offering or a peace offering to fulfill a vow or as a voluntary gift, or in their appointed festivals, you shall present it as a fragrant aroma to the Lord from the herd or the flock.

When you prepare an offering by fire to the Lord, whether it is a burnt offering, a sacrifice in fulfilling a vow, a freewill offering, or a contribution during your appointed festivals, you must follow these instructions: he who offers his offering shall bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with an hin of oil and its fourth part. For a lamb, prepare one-fourth of an hin of wine for a drink offering; for a ram, two-tenth deals of flour mingled with one-third of an hin of oil as a meat offering, and one-third of an hin of wine for a drink offering.

For a bull offered as a burnt or peace offering, follow the same rules that apply to native-born Israelites. When bringing a meat offering, he shall bring three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil, and half an hin of wine as a drink offering, a sweet fragrance to the Lord in connection with the fire offering.

When you offer a sacrifice, whether it is one bull, one ram, one lamb, or one young goat, do it in the same manner. According to the number that you prepare, so shall you do to each one according to their number. All who are born in the land must perform these actions in making an offering by fire, of a sweet aroma to the Lord.

If a stranger sojourns with you or anyone among your descendants in future generations offers an offering made by fire of a pleasing aroma to the Lord as you do, he shall do it. One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation and also for the stranger who sojourns with you, an ordinance that applies forever in your generations.

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "This shall be the ritual of the cereal offering: take fine flour and bake twelve cakes, two-tenths of an ephah each, which you shall put in one basket, arranged in two stacks, six in a stack. When you enter the land I am bringing you into, you shall offer an offering to the Lord when you eat of the bread of the land.

You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough as an offering to God, just as you do with grain offerings from the threshing floor. Of your firstfruits, you shall give an offering to the Lord throughout your generations. If you have erred and not observed all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses since the day that the Lord commanded Moses and henceforward among your generations,

if something is done unintentionally without the community's knowledge, the entire congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering to the Lord with its grain and drink offerings, as prescribed, and one goat kid for a sin offering. The priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of Israel and it shall be forgiven them, because their actions were due to ignorance; they will bring a sacrifice made by fire to the Lord along with their sin offering as a covering for their mistake.

And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of Israel, and the stranger who sojourns among them since all the people were in ignorance. If any person sins through ignorance then he shall bring a one-year-old male goat as a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally before the Lord to purify him and have his sin forgiven.

You shall have one law for him who sins through ignorance, whether he is an Israelite by birth or a foreigner living among them. But anyone who acts presumptuously, whether native-born or a foreigner, shall be cut off from among his people for rejecting the Lord and doing so willfully.

Because he has despised the word of the Lord and broken his commandment that person will be completely cut off; their iniquity shall be upon them. While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

They who found him brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. They put him in custody since it had not been determined what should be done to him. The Lord said to Moses "This man will be put to death; the entire community must stone him with stones outside the camp.

The entire congregation took him outside the camp and stoned him to death just as the Lord had commanded Moses. The Lord spoke to Moses saying, "Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout their generations they are to place tassels on the corners of their garments.

Speak to the Israelites and instruct them to attach tassels to the hem of their garments throughout their generations with a blue cord on each fringe. And it shall be a fringe to you, so you may remember and do all my commandments, so you may be holy to your God. I am your God who brought you out of Egypt to be your God."