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Numbers 15:25-37 World Messianic Bible British Edition (WMBBE)

25. The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their error.

26. All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly.

27. “‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

28. The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs when he sins unwittingly before the Lord. He shall make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

29. You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born amongst the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst them.

30. “‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes the Lord. That soul shall be cut off from amongst his people.

31. Because he has despised the Lord’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’”

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

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

34. They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

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

36. All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.

37. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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