Numbers 15:24-34

24 and if this is done unintentionally without the community being aware of it, then the whole community is to offer a young bull for a burnt offering as an aroma pleasing to the LORD, along with its prescribed grain offering and drink offering, and a male goat for a sin offering.^[a]

25 The priest is to make atonement for the whole Israelite community, and they will be forgiven, for it was not intentional and they have presented to the LORD for their wrong a food offering and a sin offering.

26 The whole Israelite community and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, because all the people were involved in the unintentional wrong.

27 “ ‘But if just one person sins unintentionally, that person must bring a year-old female goat for a sin offering.

28 The priest is to make atonement before the LORD for the one who erred by sinning unintentionally, and when atonement has been made, that person will be forgiven.

29 One and the same law applies to everyone who sins unintentionally, whether a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.

30 “ ‘But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD and must be cut off from the people of Israel.

31 Because they have despised the LORD’s word and broken his commands, they must surely be cut off; their guilt remains on them.’ ”

The Sabbath-Breaker Put to Death

32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly,

34 and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him.

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Numbers 15:24-34 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 27

1. ver 25,26
2. S Leviticus 5:15
3. Leviticus 4:14
4. S ver 3
5. Leviticus 2:1
6. Leviticus 23:13; Numbers 6:15
7. Leviticus 4:3
8. Leviticus 4:20; S Romans 3:25; Hebrews 2:17
9. ver 22,S 24
10. ver 14
11. Leviticus 4:3
12. S ver 24
13. Leviticus 4:27
14. Leviticus 4:3; Numbers 6:14
15. Numbers 8:12; Numbers 28:22
16. Leviticus 4:20; Leviticus 4:35
17. S Exodus 12:49
18. Numbers 14:40-44; Deuteronomy 1:43; Deuteronomy 17:13; Psalms 19:13
19. ver 14
20. 2 Kings 19:6,20; Isaiah 37:6,23; Ezekiel 20:27
21. S Genesis 17:14; S Job 31:22
22. S Numbers 14:11
23. 1 Samuel 15:23,26; 2 Samuel 11:27; 2 Samuel 12:9; Psalms 119:126; Proverbs 13:13
24. S Leviticus 5:1; Ezekiel 18:20
25. S Numbers 12:16
26. Exodus 31:14,15; Exodus 35:2,3
27. Numbers 9:8

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or "purification offering" ; also in verses 25 and 27