Holman Christian Standard Bible

Numbers 15:12-23 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

12. This is how you must prepare each of them, no matter how many.

13. “Every Israelite is to prepare these things in this way when he presents a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

14. When a foreigner resides with you or someone else is among you and wants to prepare a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he is to do exactly as you do throughout your generations.

15. The assembly is to have the same statute for both you and the foreign resident as a permanent statute throughout your generations. You and the foreigner will be alike before the Lord.

16. The same law and the same ordinance will apply to both you and the foreigner who resides with you.”

17. The Lord instructed Moses:

18. “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land where I am bringing you,

19. you are to offer a contribution to the Lord when you eat from the food of the land.

20. You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing floor.

21. Throughout your generations, you are to give the Lord a contribution from the first batch of your dough.

22. “When you sin unintentionally and do not obey all these commands that the Lord spoke to Moses —

23. all that the Lord has commanded you through Moses, from the day the Lord issued the commands and onward throughout your generations —