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.
27. If an individual sins unintentionally, he is to offer a one-year-old female goat as a sin offering.
28. At the altar the priest shall perform the ritual of purification to purify the person from his sin, and he will be forgiven.
29. The same regulation applies to all who unintentionally commit a sin, whether they are native Israelites or resident foreigners.
30. But any person who sins deliberately, whether he is a native or a foreigner, is guilty of treating the Lord with contempt, and he shall be put to death,
31. because he has rejected what the Lord said and has deliberately broken one of his commands. He is responsible for his own death.
32. Once, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath.