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Numbers 15:3-17 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

3. A bull, a ram, a sheep, or a goat may be presented to the Lord as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice in fulfilment of a vow or as a freewill offering or as an offering at your regular religious festivals; the smell of these food offerings is pleasing to the Lord.

4-5. Whoever presents a sheep or a goat as a burnt offering to the Lord is to bring with each animal a kilogramme of flour mixed with one litre of olive oil as a grain offering, together with one litre of wine.

6. When a ram is offered, two kilogrammes of flour mixed with 1.5 litres of olive oil are to be presented as a grain offering,

7. together with 1.5 litres of wine. The smell of these sacrifices is pleasing to the Lord.

8. When a bull is offered to the Lord as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice in fulfilment of a vow or as a fellowship offering,

9. a grain offering of three kilogrammes of flour mixed with two litres of olive oil is to be presented,

10. together with two litres of wine. The smell of this sacrifice is pleasing to the Lord.

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

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