Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Numbers 15:21-34 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

21. All your descendants must follow this law and offer part of the first batch of bread dough.

22-23. The Lord also told Moses to tell the people what must be done if they ever disobey his laws:

24. If all of you disobey one of my laws without meaning to, you must offer a bull as a sacrifice to please me, together with a grain sacrifice, a wine offering, and a goat as a sacrifice for sin.

25. Then the priest will pray and ask me to forgive you. And since you did not mean to do wrong, and you offered sacrifices,

26. the sin of everyone—both Israelites and foreigners among you—will be forgiven.

27. But if one of you does wrong without meaning to, you must sacrifice a year-old female goat as a sacrifice for sin.

28. The priest will then ask me to forgive you, and your sin will be forgiven.

29. The law will be the same for anyone who does wrong without meaning to, whether an Israelite or a foreigner living among you.

30-31. But if one of you does wrong on purpose, whether Israelite or foreigner, you have sinned against me by disobeying my laws. You will be sent away and will no longer live among the people of Israel.

32. Once, while the Israelites were travelling through the desert, a man was caught gathering firewood on the Sabbath.

33. He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the rest of the community.

34. But no one knew what to do with him, so he was not allowed to leave.