Numbers 15:10-20

10 and you shall offer for the drink- offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.

11 Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids.

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

13 All who are home-born shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.

14 If a stranger sojourn with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD; as you do, so he shall do.

15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who sojourns [with you], a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the sojourner be before the LORD.

16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who sojourns with you.

17 The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

18 Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, When you come into the land where I bring you,

19 then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave- offering to the LORD.

20 Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it.

Numbers 15:10-20 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.