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Numbers 15:23-38 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

23. and which he has commanded through him for you, from the day that he began to command and thereafter,

24. and if the multitude will have forgotten to do it, then they shall offer a calf from the herd, a holocaust as a most sweet odor to the Lord, and its sacrifice and libations, just as the ceremonies ask, and a he-goat for sin.

25. And the priest shall pray for the entire multitude of the sons of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, because they did not sin willfully. Nevertheless, they shall offer incense to the Lord for themselves, and for sin, as well as for their error.

26. And it shall be forgiven all the people of the sons of Israel, as well as the newcomers who sojourn among them, for it is the culpability of all the people through neglect.

27. But if one soul will have sinned by not knowing, he shall offer a one-year-old she-goat for his sin.

28. And the priest shall pray for him, because he sinned unknowingly before the Lord. And he shall obtain pardon for him, and it will be forgiven him.

29. One law shall be for all who sin by ignorance, as much for natives as for newcomers.

30. Yet truly, the soul who commits any of these acts through arrogance, whether he is a citizen or a sojourner, because he has rebelled against the Lord, shall perish from among his people.

31. For he has despised the word of the Lord, and he has nullified his precept. For this reason, he shall be destroyed, and he shall bear his iniquity."

32. And it happened that, when the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, and they had found a man collecting wood on the day of the Sabbath,

33. they brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to the whole multitude.

34. And they enclosed him in a prison, not knowing what they should do with him.

35. And the Lord said to Moses, "Let that man be put to death; let the entire crowd crush him with stones, outside the camp."

36. And when they had led him out, they overwhelmed him with stones, and he died, just as the Lord had instructed.

37. The Lord also said to Moses:

38. "Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall tell them to make for themselves hems at the corners of their cloaks, placing in them ribbons of hyacinth,

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