Numbers 15:15

15 There shall be one law for you and for the strangers abiding among you, a perpetual law for your generations: as ye , so shall the stranger be before the Lord.

Numbers 15:15 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 15:15

One ordinance [shall be both] for you of the congregation,
&c.] Or "O congregation" ^F9, as Ben Melech, and so the Targum of Jonathan, "O whole congregation"; though Aben Ezra denies it to be vocative:

and also for the stranger that sojourneth [with you];
the same ordinance, statute, or appointment, respecting the above things, were equally binding on one side as on the other, an homeborn Israelite and a proselyte of righteousness:

an ordinance for ever in your generations;
to be observed by them, one and the other, in all ages, until the Messiah came and abolished the law of commandments contained in ordinances:

as ye [are] so shall the stranger be before the Lord;
not in things civil, but religious, and particularly with respect to the above sacrifices and offerings: Ben Gersom and Aben Ezra say this respects the burnt offering only, which was before the Lord.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (lhqh) "O Congregatio", Noldius, p. 237. No. 1077.

Numbers 15:15 In-Context

13 Every native of the country shall do thus to offer such things as sacrifices for a smell of sweet savour to the Lord.

14 And if there should be a stranger among you in your land, or one who should be born to you among your generations, and he will offer a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savour to the Lord—as ye do, so the congregation shall offer to the Lord.

15 There shall be one law for you and for the strangers abiding among you, a perpetual law for your generations: as ye , so shall the stranger be before the Lord.

16 There shall be one law and one ordinance for you, and for the stranger that abides among you.

17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,