NUMBERS 15
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you come into the
land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,
3 and you make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the
flock—whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfil a vow or as a freewill
offering or at your appointed festivals—to make a pleasing odour for the
Lord,
4 then whoever presents such an offering to the Lord shall present
also a grain offering, one-tenth of an ephah of choice flour, mixed with
one-fourth of a hin of oil.
5 Moreover, you shall offer one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink
offering with the burnt offering or the sacrifice, for each lamb.
6 For a ram, you shall offer a grain offering, two-tenths of an ephah
of choice flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil;
7 and as a drink offering you shall offer one-third of a hin of
wine, a pleasing odour to the Lord.
8 When you offer a bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to
fulfil a vow or as an offering of well-being to the Lord,
9 then you shall present with the bull a grain offering,
three-tenths of an ephah of choice flour, mixed with half a hin of oil,
10 and you shall present as a drink offering half a hin of wine, as
an offering by fire, a pleasing odour to the Lord.
11 Thus it shall be done for each ox or ram, or for each of the male
lambs or the kids.
12 According to the number that you offer, so you shall do with each
and every one.
13 Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in
presenting an offering by fire, a pleasing odour to the Lord.
14 An alien who lives with you, or who takes up permanent residence
among you, and wishes to offer an offering by fire, a pleasing odour to the
Lord, shall do as you do.
15 As for the assembly, there shall be for both you and the resident
alien a single statute, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you
and the alien shall be alike before the Lord.
16 You and the alien who resides with you shall have the same law and
the same ordinance.
17 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
18 Speak to the Israelites and say to them: After you come into the
land to which I am bringing you,
19 whenever you eat of the bread of the land, you shall present a
donation to the Lord.
20 From your first batch of dough you shall present a loaf as a
donation; you shall present it just as you present a donation from the
threshing floor.
21 Throughout your generations you shall give to the Lord a donation
from the first of your batch of dough.
22 But if you unintentionally fail to observe all these commandments
that the Lord has spoken to Moses—
23 everything that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day
the Lord gave commandment and thereafter, throughout your generations—
24 then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the
congregation, the whole congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt
offering, a pleasing odour to the Lord, together with its grain offering and
its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin
offering.
25 The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the
Israelites, and they shall be forgiven; it was unintentional, and they have
brought their offering, an offering by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering
before the Lord, for their error.
26 All the congregation of the Israelites shall be forgiven, as well
as the aliens residing among them, because the whole people was involved in the
error.
27 An individual who sins unintentionally shall present a female goat
a year old for a sin offering.
28 And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the one
who commits an error, when it is unintentional, to make atonement for the
person, who then shall be forgiven.
29 For both the native among the Israelites and the alien residing
among them—you shall have the same law for anyone who acts in error.
30 But whoever acts high-handedly, whether a native or an alien,
affronts the Lord, and shall be cut off from among the people.
31 Because of having despised the word of the Lord and broken his
commandment, such a person shall be utterly cut off and bear the guilt.
32 When the Israelites 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, Aaron,
and to the whole congregation.
34 They put him in custody, because it was not clear what should be
done to him.
35 Then the Lord said to Moses, "The man shall be put to death;
all the congregation shall stone him outside the camp."
36 The whole congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him
to death, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
37 The Lord said to Moses:
38 Speak to the Israelites, and tell them to make fringes on the
corners of their garments throughout their generations and to put a blue cord
on the fringe at each corner.
39 You have the fringe so that, when you see it, you will remember
all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and not follow the lust of your
own heart and your own eyes.
40 So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and you shall be
holy to your God.
41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
to be your God: I am the Lord your God.
NUMBERS 16
1 Now Korah son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi, along with
Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—descendants of
Reuben—took
2 Two hundred fifty Israelite men, leaders of the congregation, chosen
from the assembly, well-known men, and they confronted Moses.
3 They assembled against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them,
"You have gone too far! All the congregation are holy, every one of them,
and the Lord is among them. So why then do you exalt yourselves above the
assembly of the Lord?"
4 When Moses heard it, he fell on his face.
5 Then he said to Korah and all his company, "In the morning
the Lord will make known who is his, and who is holy, and who will be allowed
to approach him; the one whom he will choose he will allow to approach
him.
6 Do this: take censers, Korah and all your company,
7 and tomorrow put fire in them, and lay incense on them before the
Lord; and the man whom the Lord chooses shall be the holy one. You Levites have
gone too far!"
8 Then Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you Levites!
9 Is it too little for you that the God of Israel has separated you
from the congregation of Israel, to allow you to approach him in order to
perform the duties of the Lord's tabernacle, and to stand before the
congregation and serve them?
10 He has allowed you to approach him, and all your brother Levites
with you; yet you seek the priesthood as well!
11 Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against
the Lord. What is Aaron that you rail against him?"
12 Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab; but they said,
"We will not come!
13 Is it too little that you have brought us up out of a land flowing
with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also lord it
over us?
14 It is clear you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk
and honey, or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you put
out the eyes of these men? We will not come!"
15 Moses was very angry and said to the Lord, "Pay no attention
to their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed
any one of them."
16 And Moses said to Korah, "As for you and all your company, be
present tomorrow before the Lord, you and they and Aaron;
17 and let each one of you take his censer, and put incense on it,
and each one of you present his censer before the Lord, two hundred fifty
censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer."
18 So each man took his censer, and they put fire in the censers and
laid incense on them, and they stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting
with Moses and Aaron.
19 Then Korah assembled the whole congregation against them at the entrance
of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole
congregation.
20 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
21 Separate yourselves from this congregation, so that I may consume them
in a moment.
22 They fell on their faces, and said, "O God, the God of the
spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole
congregation?"
23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
24 Say to the congregation: Get away from the dwellings of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram.
25 So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram; the elders of Israel
followed him.
26 He said to the congregation, "Turn away from the tents of
these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, or you will be swept away for
all their sins."
27 So they got away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram;
and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrance of their tents,
together with their wives, their children, and their little ones.
28 And Moses said, "This is how you shall know that the Lord has
sent me to do all these works; it has not been of my own accord:
29 If these people die a natural death, or if a natural fate comes on
them, then the Lord has not sent me.
30 But if the Lord creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth
and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive
into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the
Lord."
31 As soon as he finished speaking all these words, the ground under
them was split apart.
32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their
households—everyone who belonged to Korah and all their goods.
33 So they with all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol;
the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the
assembly.
34 All Israel around them fled at their outcry, for they said,
"The earth will swallow us too!"
35 And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred fifty
men offering the incense.
36 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
37 Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to take the censers out of
the blaze; then scatter the fire far and wide.
38 For the censers of these sinners have become holy at the cost of
their lives. Make them into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for
they presented them before the Lord and they became holy. Thus they shall be a
sign to the Israelites.
39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that had been
presented by those who were burned; and they were hammered out as a covering
for the altar—
40 a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider, who is not of the
descendants of Aaron, shall approach to offer incense before the Lord, so as
not to become like Korah and his company—just as the Lord had said to him
through Moses.
41 On the next day, however, the whole congregation of the Israelites
rebelled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the
people of the Lord."
42 And when the congregation had assembled against them, Moses and
Aaron turned toward the tent of meeting; the cloud had covered it and the glory
of the Lord appeared.
43 Then Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of
meeting,
44 and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
45 "Get away from this congregation, so that I may consume them
in a moment." And they fell on their faces.
46 Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, put fire on it from
the altar and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation and
make atonement for them. For wrath has gone out from the Lord; the plague has
begun."
47 So Aaron took it as Moses had ordered, and ran into the middle of
the assembly, where the plague had already begun among the people. He put on
the incense, and made atonement for the people.
48 He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was
stopped.
49 Those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred,
besides those who died in the affair of Korah.
50 When the plague was stopped, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of
the tent of meeting.
NUMBERS 17
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Speak to the Israelites, and get twelve staffs from them, one for
each ancestral house, from all the leaders of their ancestral houses. Write
each man's name on his staff,
3 and write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi. For there shall be
one staff for the head of each ancestral house.
4 Place them in the tent of meeting before the covenant, where I
meet with you.
5 And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout; thus I will
put a stop to the complaints of the Israelites that they continually make
against you.
6 Moses spoke to the Israelites; and all their leaders gave him
staffs, one for each leader, according to their ancestral houses, twelve
staffs; and the staff of Aaron was among theirs.
7 So Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the
covenant.
8 When Moses went into the tent of the covenant on the next day, the
staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted. It put forth buds, produced
blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.
9 Then Moses brought out all the staffs from before the Lord to all the
Israelites; and they looked, and each man took his staff.
10 And the Lord said to Moses, "Put back the staff of Aaron
before the covenant, to be kept as a warning to rebels, so that you may make an
end of their complaints against me, or else they will die."
11 Moses did so; just as the Lord commanded him, so he did.
12 The Israelites said to Moses, "We are perishing; we are lost,
all of us are lost!
13 Everyone who approaches the tabernacle of the Lord will die. Are
we all to perish?"
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