Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Numbers 15:2-16 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

2. “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: I am giving you a land to be your home. When you enter that land,

3. you must give special gifts to the Lord. Their smell will please the Lord. You will use your cattle, sheep, and goats for burnt offerings, sacrifices, special promises, special gifts, fellowship offerings, or at your special festivals.

4. “At the time someone brings their offering, they must also give a grain offering to the Lord. The grain offering will be 8 cups of fine flour mixed with 1 quart of olive oil.

5. Each time you offer a lamb as a burnt offering or sacrifice, you must also prepare a quart of wine as a drink offering.

6. “If you are giving a ram, you must also prepare a grain offering. This grain offering should be 16 cups of fine flour mixed with 1 1/4 quarts of olive oil.

7. And you must prepare 1 1/4 quarts of wine as a drink offering. Its smell will please the Lord.

8. “You might prepare a young bull as a burnt offering, a sacrifice, a fellowship offering, or to keep a special promise to the Lord.

9. At that time you must also bring a grain offering with the bull. That grain offering should be 24 cups of fine flour mixed with 2 quarts of olive oil.

10. Also bring 2 quarts of wine as a drink offering as a sweet-smelling gift to the Lord.

11. Each bull or ram, or lamb or young goat that you give must be prepared in this way.

12. Do this for every one of these animals that you give.

13. “This is the way every citizen of Israel must give gifts to please the Lord.

14. Foreigners will live among you. If they give gifts to please the Lord, they must offer them the same way you do.

15. The same rules will be for everyone—the Israelites and the foreigners living among you. This law will continue forever. You and the people living among you will be the same before the Lord.

16. This means that you must follow the same laws and the same rules. These laws and rules are for you Israelites and for the other people who are living among you.”