Laws about Offerings

1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you will have entered into the land of your habitation, which I will give you, 3and you make an offering to the Lord, as a holocaust or as a victim, paying your vows, or as a voluntary offering of gifts, or in your solemnities, burning a sweet odor to the Lord, whether from the oxen or from the sheep: 4whoever immolates the victim shall offer a sacrifice of fine wheat flour, the tenth part of an ephah, sprinkled with oil, which shall have the measure of the fourth part of a hin, 5and he shall give the same measure of wine, poured out as libations, whether as a holocaust or as a victim. 6With each lamb and each ram, there shall be a sacrifice of fine wheat flour, of two tenths, which shall be sprinkled with one third part of a hin of oil. 7And he shall offer the same measure, one third part of wine, for the libation, as a sweet odor to the Lord. 8Yet truly, when you will offer, from the oxen, a holocaust or a victim, in order to fulfill your vow or for peace-offering victims, 9you shall give, for each ox, three tenths of fine wheat flour, sprinkled with oil, which has the measure of one half of one hin, 10and the wine, poured out as libations, shall be of the same measure, as an oblation of most sweet odor to the Lord.

11So shall you do 12for each ox, and ram, and lamb, and young goat. 13Both natives and sojourners

14shall offer sacrifices by the same rituals. 15There shall be one precept and one judgment, as much for yourselves as for newcomers to the land.” 16And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

17“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: 18When you will arrive in the land which I will give to you, 19and when you will eat from the bread of that region, you shall separate the first-fruits to the Lord 20from the foods that you eat. Just as you separate the first-fruits of your threshing floors, 21so also shall you give the first-fruits of your cooked grains to the Lord.

Offerings for Unintentional Sins

22And if, through ignorance, you neglect any of these things, which the Lord has spoken to Moses, 23and which he has commanded through him for you, from the day that he began to command and thereafter, 24and if the multitude will have forgotten to do it, then they shall offer a calf from the herd, a holocaust as a most sweet odor to the Lord, and its sacrifice and libations, just as the ceremonies ask, and a he-goat for sin. 25And the priest shall pray for the entire multitude of the sons of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, because they did not sin willfully. Nevertheless, they shall offer incense to the Lord for themselves, and for sin, as well as for their error. 26And it shall be forgiven all the people of the sons of Israel, as well as the newcomers who sojourn among them, for it is the culpability of all the people through neglect.

27But if one soul will have sinned by not knowing, he shall offer a one-year-old she-goat for his sin. 28And the priest shall pray for him, because he sinned unknowingly before the Lord. And he shall obtain pardon for him, and it will be forgiven him. 29One law shall be for all who sin by ignorance, as much for natives as for newcomers. 30Yet truly, the soul who commits any of these acts through arrogance, whether he is a citizen or a sojourner, because he has rebelled against the Lord, shall perish from among his people. 31For he has despised the word of the Lord, and he has nullified his precept. For this reason, he shall be destroyed, and he shall bear his iniquity.”

A Sabbath-Breaker Stoned
(Exodus 31:12–17)

32And it happened that, when the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, and they had found a man collecting wood on the day of the Sabbath, 33they brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to the whole multitude. 34And they enclosed him in a prison, not knowing what they should do with him. 35And the Lord said to Moses, “Let that man be put to death; let the entire crowd crush him with stones, outside the camp.” 36And when they had led him out, they overwhelmed him with stones, and he died, just as the Lord had instructed.

The Law of Tassels

37The Lord also said to Moses: 38“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall tell them to make for themselves hems at the corners of their cloaks, placing in them ribbons of hyacinth, 39so that, when they see these, they may remember all the commandments of the Lord, and they may not follow their own thoughts and eyes, fornicating in various ways, 40but instead, they, being more mindful of the precepts of the Lord, may do them and may be holy to their God. 41I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, so that I may be your God.”