26. The entire Israelite community and the immigrant residing among them will be forgiven, because all the people acted unintentionally.
27. If an individual sins unintentionally, that person must present a one-year-old female goat for a purification offering.
28. The priest will seek reconciliation in the Lord’s presence for the person who sinned unintentionally, when the sin is an accident, seeking reconciliation so that person will be forgiven.
29. There will be one set of instructions for the Israelite citizen and the immigrant residing with you for anyone who commits an unintentional sin.
30. But the person who acts deliberately, whether a citizen or an immigrant, and insults the Lord, that person will be cut off from the people
31. for despising the Lord’s word and breaking his commands. That person will be completely cut off and bear the guilt.
32. When the Israelites were in the desert, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
33. Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the entire community.
34. They placed him in custody, because it wasn’t clear what should be done to him.