Numbers 15:11-21

11 'Thus it shall be done for each ox, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the goats.

12 'According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do for everyone according to their number.

13 'All who are native shall do these things in this manner, in presenting an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD.

Law of the Sojourner

14 'If an alien sojourns with you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to make an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD, just as you do so he shall do.

15 'As for the assembly, there shall be ¹one statute for you and for the alien who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the alien be before the LORD.

16 'There is to be ²one law and one ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns with you.' "

17 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

18 "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land where * I bring you,

19 then it shall be, that when you eat of the ³food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.

20 '⁴Of the first of your dough you shall lift up a cake as an offering; as ⁵the offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.

21 'From the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD an offering throughout your generations.

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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

Cross References 5

1. Numbers 9:14; Numbers 15:29
2. Leviticus 24:22
3. Joshua 5:11, 12
4. Exodus 34:26; Leviticus 23:14
5. Deuteronomy 14:22, 23; Deuteronomy 16:13

Footnotes 7

[a]. Lit "bread"
[b]. Or "a heave offering"
[c]. Or "coarse meal"
[d]. Or "heave offering"
[e]. Or "heave offering"
[f]. Or "coarse meal"
[g]. Or "offering lifted up"