Numbers 15:12-22

12 According to the number that you prepare, so shall you do with every one according to their number.

13 All who are native shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

14 And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or any one is among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to offer an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD, he shall do as you do.

15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute 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 said to Moses,

18 "Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land to which I bring you

19 and when you eat of the food of the land, you shall present an offering to the LORD.

20 Of the first of your coarse meal you shall present a cake as an offering; as an offering from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.

21 Of the first of your coarse meal you shall give to the LORD an offering throughout your generations.

22 "But if you err, and do not observe all these commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses,

Numbers 15:12-22 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.