(KJV) Numbers 151

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⥃Laws about Offerings

[1] And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,2 [2] Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,3 [3] And will make4 an offering by fire unto the Lord, a burnt5 offering, or a sacrifice6 in performing7 a vow, or in a freewill8 offering, or in your9 solemn feasts, to make a sweet10 savour unto the Lord, of the herd11, or of the flock: [4] Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the Lord bring a meat12 offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth13 [part] of an hin of oil. [5] And the fourth [part] of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.14 [6] Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare [for] a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third [part] of an hin of oil.15 [7] And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third [part] of an hin of wine, [for] a sweet savour unto the Lord. [8] And when thou preparest a bullock [for] a burnt offering, or [for] a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace16 offerings unto the Lord: [9] Then shall he bring with a17 bullock a meat18 offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil. [10] And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, [for] an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.19 [11] Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.20 [12] According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number. [13] All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord. [14] And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever [be] among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord; as ye do, so he shall do. [15] One21 ordinance [shall be both] for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth [with you], an ordinance22 for ever in your generations: as ye [are], so shall the stranger be before the Lord. [16] One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

[17] [¶]And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, [18] Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,23 [19] Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the Lord.2425 [20] Ye shall offer up a cake26 of the first of your dough [for] an heave offering: as [ye do] the heave offering27 of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it. [21] Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the Lord an heave offering in your generations.28

⥃Offerings for Unintentional Sins

[22] And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the Lord hath spoken unto Moses,2930 [23] [Even] all that the Lord hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded [Moses], and henceforward among your generations; [24] Then it shall be, if [ought31] be committed by ignorance without32 the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock33 for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the Lord, with his34 meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner35, and one kid36 of the goats for a sin offering. [25] And the priest37 shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them38; for it [is] ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their ignorance: [26] And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people [were] in ignorance.

[27] [¶]And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.39 [28] And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the Lord, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.40 [29] Ye shall have one law41 for him that sinneth42 through ignorance, [both for] him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

[30] But the soul that doeth [ought43] presumptuously44, [whether he be] born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth45 the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. [31] Because he hath despised46 the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity47 [shall be] upon him.

⥃A Sabbath-Breaker Stoned [ Exodus 31:12–17 ]

[32] [¶]And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man48 that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. [33] And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.49 [34] And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.50 [35] And the Lord said unto Moses, The man51 shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him52 with stones without the camp. [36] And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.53

⥃The Law of Tassels

[37] And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, [38] Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders54 of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: [39] And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember55 all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not56 after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring57: [40] That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy58 unto your God. [41] I [am] the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I [am] the Lord your God. 59

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  1. Num 15:1, The law of the meat offering, and the drink offering; Num 15:14, The stranger is under the same law; Num 15:17, The law of the first of the dough for an heave offering; Num 15:22, The sacrifice for sins of ignorance; Num 15:30, The punishment of presumption; Num 15:32, He that violated the sabbath is stoned; Num 15:37, The law of fringes. ↩

  2. It is very probable, that the transactions recorded in this and the four following chapters took place during the time the Israelites abode in Kadesh (Deut 1:46). ↩

  3. Num 15:18; Lev 14:34, Lev 23:10, Lev 25:2; Deut 7:1-2, Deut 12:1, Deut 12:9 ↩

  4. Exod 29:18, Exod 29:25, Exod 29:41; Lev 1:2-3, Lev 1:9, Lev 1:13, Lev 1:17, Lev 10:13 ↩

  5. Lev 1:1-17 ↩

  6. Lev 7:16, Lev 22:18-23; Deut 12:11 ↩

  7. Heb. separating, Lev 27:2 ↩

  8. Lev 22:21, Lev 22:23; Deut 12:6, Deut 12:17, Deut 16:10 ↩

  9. Num 28:16-19, Num 28:27, Num 29:1-2, Num 29:8, Num 29:13-40; Lev 23:8, Lev 23:12, Lev 23:36; Deut 16:1-17 ↩

  10. Gen 8:21; Exod 29:18; Matt 3:17; Eph 5:2; Phil 4:18 ↩

  11. Under the term bakar, are comprehended the ox, heifer, etc; and under tzon, are included sheep and goats. The animals enjoined in the Levitical law are the very same which commanded Abraham to offer (Gen 15:9). Hence it is evident, that God delivered to the patriarchs an epitome of that law which was afterwards given in detail to Moses, the essence of which consisted in its sacrifices; and these sacrifices were of clean animals, the most perfect, useful, and healthy of all that are brought under the immediate government of man. Gross feeding and ferocious animals were all excluded, as well as all birds of prey. ↩

  12. Exod 29:40; Lev 2:1, Lev 6:14, Lev 7:9-10, Lev 23:13; Isa 66:20; Mal 1:11; Rom 15:16; Heb 13:16 ↩

  13. Num 28:5-8; Exod 29:40; Lev 2:15, Lev 14:10, Lev 23:13; Judg 9:9; Ezek 46:14 ↩

  14. Num 28:7, Num 28:14; Judg 9:13; Ps 116:13; Song 1:4; Zech 9:17; Matt 26:28-29; Phil 2:17; 2Tim 4:6 ↩

  15. Num 15:4, Num 28:12-14 ↩

  16. Lev 3:1, Lev 7:11-18 ↩

  17. Num 28:12, Num 28:14 ↩

  18. Num 29:6; Lev 6:14, Lev 7:37, Lev 14:10; 1Chr 21:23; Neh 10:33; Ezek 42:13; Ezek 46:5, Ezek 46:7, Ezek 46:11, Ezek 46:15; Joel 1:9, Joel 2:14 ↩

  19. Num 15:5, Num 6:15 ↩

  20. Num 15:28 ↩

  21. Num 15:29, Num 9:14; Exod 12:49; Lev 24:22; Gal 3:28; Eph 2:11-22; Col 3:11 ↩

  22. Num 10:8, Num 18:8; Exod 12:14, Exod 12:24, Exod 12:43; 1Sam 30:25 ↩

  23. Num 15:2; Deut 26:1-15 ↩

  24. The oblation before prescribed seems to have been a general acknowledgment from the people at large; but this was an oblation from every one that reaped a harvest. Who was required, previously to tasting it himself, to offer a portion of dough as a heave-offering to the Lord. This is supposed to have been given to the priests in their several cities, and not carried to the tabernacle. ↩

  25. Josh 5:11-12 ↩

  26. Num 18:12; Exod 23:19; Deut 26:2-10; Neh 10:37; Prov 3:9-10; Ezek 44:30; Matt 6:33; Rom 11:16; 1Cor 15:20; Jas 1:18; Rev 14:4 ↩

  27. Lev 2:14, Lev 23:20, Lev 23:16-17 ↩

  28. Num 18:26; Exod 29:28 ↩

  29. This law concerning sins of ignorance, being entirely diverse from one before considered, occasions considerable difficulty (Lev 4:1-35). Some explain that law as relating to sins of commission, this to sins of omission. Others explain the one of inadvertent violations of the moral law, and the other of the transgressions of the ceremonial law, and some think that related to the whole nation, this to any one tribe; or that to the bulk of the nation, this to the rulers and elders. The Jews say, that the former law referred to such national transgressions through heedlessness, as consisted with the maintenance of the prescribed worship in the main; but that this especially respected the case of the nation, when through inattention, and the example and authority of wicked rulers, they had turned aside and committed idolatry, or conducted their worship directly contrary to law; yet through a culpable ignorance, and not in presumption. This was evidently the case under several of their kings; and the explanation seems well grounded. ↩

  30. Lev 4:2, Lev 4:13-14, Lev 4:22, Lev 4:27, Lev 5:13, Lev 5:15-17; Ps 19:12; Luke 12:48 ↩

  31. Lev 4:13 ↩

  32. Heb. from the eyes ↩

  33. Lev 4:14-21 ↩

  34. Num 15:8-10 ↩

  35. or, ordinance ↩

  36. Num 28:15; Lev 4:23; 2Chr 29:21-24; Ezra 6:17, Ezra 8:35 ↩

  37. Lev 4:20, Lev 4:26; Rom 3:25; 1John 2:2 ↩

  38. Luke 23:34; Acts 13:39 ↩

  39. Lev 4:27-28; Acts 3:17, Acts 17:30; 1Tim 1:13 ↩

  40. Lev 4:35 ↩

  41. Num 15:15, Num 9:14; Lev 16:29, Lev 17:15; Rom 3:29-30 ↩

  42. Heb. doeth ↩

  43. Num 9:13, Num 14:44; Gen 17:14; Exod 21:14; Lev 20:3, Lev 20:6, Lev 20:10; Deut 1:43, Deut 17:12; Deut 29:19-20; Ps 19:13; Matt 12:32; Heb 10:26, Heb 10:29; 2Pet 2:10 ↩

  44. Heb. with an high hand, That is, bold, daring, deliberate acts of transgression against the fullest evidence, and in despite of the Divine authority. Such conduct "reproacheth the Lord," as if his commands were needless, unreasonable, and inimical to the happiness of man; his favour were not desirable, or his wrath not to be feared. In short, as if it were more advantageous to rebel against him than to serve him. Such acts admitted of no atonement. The person was condemned to bear his own iniquity, and to be cut off. ↩

  45. Ps 69:9, Ps 74:18, Ps 74:22, Ps 79:12, Ps 89:51; Prov 14:31; Isa 37:23-24 ↩

  46. Lev 26:15, Lev 26:43; 2Sam 12:9; Ps 119:126; Prov 13:13; Isa 30:12; 1Thess 4:8; Heb 10:28-29 ↩

  47. Lev 5:1; Ps 38:4; Isa 53:6; Ezek 18:20; 1Pet 2:24; 2Pet 2:21 ↩

  48. This example seems to have been evidently introduced to illustrate the foregoing law. The man despised the word of the Lord, presumptuously broke his commandment, and on this ground was punished with death. Exod 16:23, Exod 16:27-28, Exod 20:8-10, Exod 35:2-3 ↩

  49. John 8:3-20 ↩

  50. Lev 24:12 ↩

  51. Exod 31:14-15 ↩

  52. Lev 24:14, Lev 24:23; 1Kgs 21:13; Acts 7:58; Heb 13:11-12 ↩

  53. Josh 7:25 ↩

  54. The word tzitzith properly denotes an ornament resembling a flower. From Num 15:39, we learn that these were emblematical of the commands of God. That there is any analogy between a fringe and a precept, it would be bold to assert; but when a thing is appointed to represent another, no matter how different, that first object becomes the legitimate representative or sign of the other. Deut 22:12; Matt 9:20, Matt 23:5; Luke 8:44 ↩

  55. Exod 13:9; Deut 6:6-9, Deut 11:18-21, Deut 11:28-32; Prov 3:1 ↩

  56. Deut 29:19; Job 31:7; Prov 28:26; Eccl 11:9; Jer 9:14; Ezek 6:9 ↩

  57. Exod 34:15-16; Ps 73:27, Ps 106:39; Hos 2:2; Jas 4:4 ↩

  58. Lev 11:44-45, Lev 19:2; Rom 12:1; Eph 1:4; Col 1:2; 1Thess 4:7; 1Pet 1:15-16 ↩

  59. Lev 22:33, Lev 25:38; Ps 105:45; Jer 31:31-33, Jer 32:37-41; Ezek 36:25-27; Heb 11:16; 1Pet 2:9-10 ↩