Numbers 15:8-18

8 "'If you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, whether it is for a special promise or a fellowship offering to the Lord,

9 bring a grain offering with the bull. It should be six quarts of fine flour mixed with two quarts of olive oil.

10 Also bring two quarts of wine as a drink offering. This offering is made by fire, and its smell will be pleasing to the Lord.

11 Prepare each bull or male sheep, lamb or young goat this way.

12 Do this for every one of the animals you bring.

13 "'All citizens must do these things in this way, and the smell of their offerings by fire will be pleasing to the Lord.

14 From now on if foreigners who live among you want to make offerings by fire so the smell will be pleasing to the Lord, they must offer them the same way you do.

15 The law is the same for you and for foreigners, and it will be from now on; you and the foreigners are alike before the Lord.

16 The teachings and rules are the same for you and for the foreigners among you.'"

17 The Lord said to Moses,

18 "Tell the Israelites: 'You are going to another land, where I am taking you.

Numbers 15:8-18 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.