Numbers 15:3-13

3 and will make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill-offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor to the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock;

4 then shall he who offers his offering offer to the LORD a meal-offering of a tenth part [of an efah] of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil:

5 and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

6 Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts [of an efah] of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil:

7 and for the drink-offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor to the LORD.

8 When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace-offerings to the LORD;

9 then shall he offer with the bull a meal-offering of three tenth parts [of an efah] of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil:

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.

Numbers 15:3-13 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.