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Numbers 15:11-26 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

11. That is what shall be offered with each bull, ram, sheep, or goat.

12. When more than one animal is offered, the accompanying offering is to be increased proportionately.

13. All native Israelites are to do this when they present a food offering, a smell pleasing to the Lord.

14. And if at any time foreigners living among you, whether on a temporary or a permanent basis, make a food offering, a smell that pleases the Lord, they are to observe the same regulations.

15. For all time to come, the same rules are binding on you and on the foreigners who live among you. You and they are alike in the Lord's sight;

16. the same laws and regulations apply to you and to them.

17. The Lord gave Moses

18. the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them.

19. When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to the Lord.

20. When you bake bread, the first loaf of the first bread made from the new corn is to be presented as a special contribution to the Lord. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the corn you thresh.

21. For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to the Lord from the bread you bake.

22. But suppose someone unintentionally fails to keep some of these regulations which the Lord has given Moses.

23. And suppose that in the future the community fails to do everything that the Lord commanded through Moses.

24. If the mistake was made because of the ignorance of the community, they are to offer a bull as a burnt offering, a smell that pleases the Lord, with the proper grain offering and wine offering. In addition, they are to offer a male goat as a sin offering.

25. The priest shall perform the ritual of purification for the community, and they will be forgiven, because the mistake was unintentional and they brought their sin offering as a food offering to the Lord.

26. The whole community of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven, because everyone was involved in the mistake.

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