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Numbers 15:23-40 Modern English Version (MEV)

23. even all that the Lord has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and onward through your generations,

24. then it will be, if it is committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the assembly, that all the assembly will offer one young bull as a burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one kid of the goats as a sin offering.

25. The priest will make atonement for all the assembly of the children of Israel, and it will be forgiven them because it is ignorance, and they will bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their ignorance.

26. And it will be forgiven all the assembly of the children of Israel and the foreigner who lives among them, because all the people were in ignorance.

27. If a person sins unintentionally, then he will bring a year-old female goat as a sin offering.

28. The priest will make an atonement for the person who sins unintentionally, when he sins by ignorance before the Lord, to make an atonement for him; and it will be forgiven him.

29. You shall have one law for the person who acts through ignorance, for the natural-born citizen among the children of Israel and foreigner who lives in your midst.

30. But the person who acts by a high hand, the natural-born citizen or the foreigner, the same reviles the Lord, and that person will be cut off from among his people.

31. Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken His commandment, that person will be totally cut off. His iniquity will be on him.

32. While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man who gathered sticks on the Sabbath day.

33. The ones who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly.

34. They put him in confinement because it was not declared what should be done to him.

35. The Lord said to Moses, “The man will surely die. All the assembly will stone him with stones outside the camp.”

36. All the assembly brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died as the Lord commanded Moses.

37. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

38. Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them to make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout the generations to come, and they will put a ribbon of blue on the corners of their garments.

39. And it will be for you a tassel, and you will see it, and you will remember all the commandments of the Lord, and you will do them, and you will not follow the lust of your own heart and your own eyes.

40. So shall you remember and do all My commandments, and be holy to your God.

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