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Numbers 15:21-40 New King James Version (NKJV)

21. Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to the Lord a heave offering throughout your generations.

22. ‘If you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses—

23. all that the Lord has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day the Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations—

24. then it will be, if it is unintentionally committed, without the knowledge of the congregation, that the whole congregation shall offer one young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the Lord, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats as a sin offering.

25. So the priest shall make atonement for the whole congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was unintentional; they shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their unintended sin.

26. It shall be forgiven the whole congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger who dwells among them, because all the people did it unintentionally.

27. ‘And if a person sins unintentionally, then he shall bring a female goat in its first year as a sin offering.

28. So the priest shall make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally, when he sins unintentionally before the Lord, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.

29. You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel and for the stranger who dwells among them.

30. ‘But the person who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one brings reproach on the Lord, and he shall be cut off from among his people.

31. Because he has despised the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt shall be upon him.’ ”

32. Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

33. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

34. They put him under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him.

35. Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”

36. So, as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.

37. Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

38. “Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners.

39. And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,

40. and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God.

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