Numeri 15:1-7

1 POI il Signore parlò a Mosè, dicendo:

2 Parla a’ figliuoli d’Israele, e di’ loro: Quando voi sarete entrati nel paese, dove avete ad abitare, il quale io vi do;

3 e farete alcun sacrificio da ardere al Signore, come olocausto, o altro sacrificio, per singolar voto, o per ispontanea volontà, o nelle vostre feste solenni, per offerir soave odore, del grosso o del minuto bestiame, al Signore;

4 offerisca colui che farà la sua offerta al Signore, un’offerta di panatica della decima parte d’un efa di fior di farina, stemperata con la quarta parte d’un hin d’olio;

5 e la quarta parte di un hin di vino, per offerta da spandere. Questo offerirai per ciascuno olocausto, o altro sacrificio che sia d’un agnello.

6 E se fai offerta di panatica per un montone, offeriscila di due decimi di fior di farina, stemperata col terzo d’un hin d’olio.

7 E per offerta da spandere, offerisci il terzo d’un hin di vino, in odor soave al Signore.

Numeri 15:1-7 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.