Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Numbers 15:20-31 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

20. You will gather grain and grind it into flour to make dough for bread. You must give the first bread from that flour as a gift to the Lord. It will be like the grain offering that comes from the threshing floor.

21. You and all your descendants must give part of the first dough you make from that flour as a gift to the Lord.

22. “As you try to obey all the commands that the Lord gave Moses, you might fail and make a mistake.

23. The Lord gave you those commands through Moses, and they have been in effect from the day they were given throughout the generations until today.

24. If you made this mistake where everyone could see it, the whole community must offer a young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet-smelling gift to the Lord. You must also offer the grain offering and the drink offering with the bull. And you must also give a male goat as a sin offering.

25. “So the priest will make the whole community of Israel pure, and they will be forgiven for the mistake they made. Since they made the mistake, they must bring a gift and a sin offering to the Lord.

26. Then the whole community of Israel and any foreigners among them will be forgiven for the mistake.

27. “But if only one person makes a mistake and sins, that person must bring a female goat that is one year old. That goat will be the sin offering.

28. The priest will make purification before the Lord for the one who sinned, and that person will be forgiven.

29. This law is for everyone who makes a mistake and sins. The same law is for the people born in the family of Israel and for the foreigners living among you.

30. “If someone sins and knows they are doing wrong, they are rebelling against the Lord. They must be separated from their people. The same law applies to citizens of Israel and to foreigners living among you.

31. They thought the Lord’S word was not important, so they broke his commands. That is why they must be separated from their people—they must bear the responsibility for their guilt.”