New English Translation

Numbers 15:27-41 New English Translation (NET)

27. “‘If any person sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.

28. And the priest must make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally – when he sins unintentionally before the Lord – to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

29. You must have one law for the person who sins unintentionally, both for the native-born among the Israelites and for the resident foreigner who lives among them.

30. “‘But the person who acts defiantly, whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults the Lord. That person must be cut off from among his people.

31. Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.’”

32. When the Israelites were in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

33. Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community.

34. They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him.

35. Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone him with stones outside the camp.”

36. So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the Lord commanded Moses.

37. The Lord spoke to Moses:

38. “Speak to the Israelites and tell them to make tassels for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and put a blue thread on the tassel of the corners.

39. You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and obey them and so that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness.

40. Thus you will remember and obey all my commandments and be holy to your God.

41. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.”