Numbers 15:11-21

11 That is what shall be offered with each bull, ram, sheep, or goat.

12 When more than one animal is offered, the accompanying offering is to be increased proportionately.

13 All native Israelites are to do this when they present a food offering, an odor pleasing to the Lord.

14 And if at any time foreigners living among you, whether on a temporary or a permanent basis, make a food offering, an odor that pleases the Lord, they are to observe the same regulations.

15 For all time to come, the same rules are binding on you and on the foreigners who live among you. You and they are alike in the Lord's sight;

16 the same laws and regulations apply to you and to them. ¹

17 The Lord gave Moses

18 the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them.

19 When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to the Lord.

20 When you bake bread, the first loaf of the first bread made from the new grain is to be presented as a special contribution to the Lord. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the grain you thresh.

21 For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to the Lord from the bread you bake.

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Numbers 15:11-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 15

In this chapter the children of Israel are instructed about the meat offerings and drink offerings, and the quantities of them, which were always to go along with their burnt offerings and peace offerings they should offer when they came into the land of Canaan, Nu 15:1-12; and they are told that the same laws and ordinances would be binding equally on them that were of the country, and on the strangers in it, Nu 15:13-16; and an order is given them to offer a cake of the first dough for an heave offering, Nu 15:17-21; and they are directed what sacrifices to offer for sins of ignorance, both of the congregation and particular persons, Nu 14:22-29; but as for presumptuous sinners, they were to be cut off, Nu 14:30,31; and an instance is recorded of stoning a sabbath breaker, Nu 14:32-36; and the chapter is concluded with a law for wearing fringes on the borders of their garments, the use of which is expressed, Nu 14:35-41.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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1. 15.16Leviticus 24.22.

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[a]. [Some ancient translations] the same; [Hebrew] the congregation the same.

Numbers 15:11-21

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Numbers 15:11-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 15

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