1    2   The Lord spoke to Moses and said, Speak to the Israelites in these words: When you enter the land where you are to live, the land I am giving you, you will make food-offerings to the Lord; 3   they may be whole-offerings or any sacrifice made in fulfilment of a special ^note vow or by way of freewill offering or at one of the appointed seasons. When you thus make an offering of soothing odour from herd or flock to the Lord, 4   the man who offers, in presenting it, shall add a grain-offering of a tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil. 5   You shall also add to the whole-offering or shared-offering a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink-offering with each lamb sacrificed.

6   If the animal is a ram, the grain-offering shall be two tenths of an ephah of flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil, 7   and the wine for the drink-offering shall be a third of a hin; in this way you will make an offering of soothing odour to the Lord.

8   When you offer to the Lord a young bull, whether as a whole-offering

The journey from Sinai to Edom or as a sacrifice to fulfil a special ^note vow, or as a shared-offering, 9   you shall add a grain-offering of three tenths of an ephah of flour mixed with half a hin of oil, and for the drink-offering, half a hin of wine; 10   the whole will thus be a food-offering of soothing odour to the Lord. 11   This is what must be done in each case, for every bull or ram, lamb or kid, whatever the number of each that you offer. 12    13   Every native Israelite shall observe these rules in each case when he offers a food-offering of soothing odour to the Lord.

14   When an alien residing with you or permanently settled among you offers a food-offering of soothing odour to the Lord, he shall do as you do. 15    ^noteThere is one and the same rule for you and for the resident alien, a rule binding for all time on your descendants; you and the alien are alike before the Lord. 16   There shall be one law and one custom for you and for the alien residing with you.

17    18   The Lord spoke to Moses and said, Speak to the Israelites in these words: After you have entered the land into which I am bringing you, 19   whenever you eat the bread of the country, you shall set aside a contribution for the Lord. 20   You shall set aside a cake made of your first kneading of dough, as you set aside the contribution from the threshing-floor. 21   You must give a contribution to the Lord from your first kneading of dough; this rule is binding on your descendants.

22   When through inadvertence you omit to carry out any of these 23   commands which the Lord gave to Moses—any command whatever that the Lord gave you through Moses on that first day and thereafter and made binding on your descendants—if it be done inadvertently, 24    unnoticed by the community, then the whole community shall offer one young bull as a whole-offering, a soothing odour to the Lord, with its proper grain-offering and drink-offering according to custom; and they shall add one he-goat as a sin-offering. 25   The priest shall make expiation for the whole community of Israelites, and they shall be forgiven. The omission was inadvertent; and they have brought their offering, a food-offering to the Lord; they have made their sin-offering before the Lord for their inadvertence; 26   the whole community of Israelites and the aliens residing among you shall be forgiven. The inadvertence was shared by the whole people.

27   If any individual sins inadvertently, he shall present a yearling she-goat as a sin-offering, 28   and the priest shall make expiation before the Lord for the said individual, and he shall be forgiven. 29   For anyone who sins inadvertently, there shall be one law for all, whether native Israelite or resident alien. 30   But the person who sins presumptuously, native or alien, insults the Lord. He shall be cut off from his people,

The journey from Sinai to Edom 31   because he has brought the word of the Lord into contempt and violated his command. That person shall be wholly cut off; the guilt shall be on his head alone.

32   During the time that the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering sticks on the sabbath day. 33   Those who had caught him in the act brought him to Moses and Aaron and all the community, 34   and they kept him in custody, because it was not clearly known what was to be done with him. 35   The Lord said to Moses, ‘The man must be put to death; he must be stoned by all the community outside the camp.’ 36   So they took him outside the camp and all stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

37    38   The Lord spoke to Moses and said, Speak to the Israelites in these words: You must make tassels like flowers on the corners of your garments, you and your children's children. Into this tassel you shall work a violet thread, 39   and whenever you see this in the tassel, you shall remember all the Lord's commands and obey them, and not go your own wanton ways, led astray by your own eyes and hearts. 40   This token is to ensure that you remember all my commands and obey them, and keep yourselves holy, consecrated to your God.

41   I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt to become your God. I am the Lord your God.

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