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About the number of grain offerings and drink offerings at sacrifices. - The beginnings of the dough. – Sins of weakness, through oversight and mistake. - Sins of malicious intent. Execution of a Sabbath violator. – Tassels on the clothes of the Israelites. Numbers 15:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Numbers 15:2. make known to the children of Israel and say to them, “When you enter the land where you live, which I am giving you, Numbers 15:3. And you will offer an offering to the Lord, a burnt offering, or a slaughtered offering, of oxen and sheep, to fulfill your vow, or according to your zeal, or on your feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the Lord, Numbers 15:4. Then he who offers his sacrifice to the Lord must bring as a bread offering a tenth [ephah] of wheat flour mixed with a quarter of an hin of oil; Numbers 15:5. and of wine for a drink offering you shall offer the fourth part of an hin for the burnt offering or slaughter for each lamb [for a pleasing aroma to the Lord]. Numbers 15:6. And when you offer a ram, you shall offer as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of an hin of oil; Numbers 15:7. and offer a third of an hin of wine for a drink offering for a pleasing aroma to the Lord. Numbers 15:8. If you offer a young ox as a burnt offering or a slaughter sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the Lord, Numbers 15:9. then together with the ox he shall bring a grain offering, three-tenths of an ephah of wheat flour mixed with half a hin of oil; Numbers 15:10. and offer half a gin of wine as a drink offering as a sacrifice for a pleasing aroma to the Lord. Numbers 15:11. Do this with every offering of an ox and a ram and a lamb from a sheep or a goat; Numbers 15:12. according to the number of sacrifices you offer, do this for each one, according to their number. Wed. (Ex.29:40; Lev.23:13). 1/10 hour ephah equals approximately 3 1/2 pounds; 1/4 gin – 2 bottles. Numbers 15:13. Every native should do this, offering a sacrifice of a pleasant aroma to the Lord; Numbers 15:14. and if a stranger dwells among you, or whoever has been among you throughout your generations, and brings a sacrifice for a pleasing aroma to the Lord, then he too shall do as you do; Numbers 15:15. for you, the congregation [of the Lord], and for the stranger who sojourns [with you], there is one statute, a statute forever throughout your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord; Numbers 15:16. there shall be one law and the same rights for you and for the stranger living with you. A native is an Israeli who has the right to settle in Canaan as an owner. A stranger is a foreigner who has been circumcised and has become a member of the Israeli community. Numbers 15:17. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Numbers 15:18. declare to the children of Israel and say to them, “When you enter the land where I am bringing you, Numbers 15:19. and you eat the bread of the land, then offer an offering to the Lord; Numbers 15:20. Of the first-fruits of your dough you shall offer a cake as a wave offering; lift it up like the offering from a threshing floor; Numbers 15:21. of the firstfruits of your dough you shall give as an offering to the Lord throughout your generations. Exodus 22.29 and Exodus 23.19 say to bring from the firstfruits of the ground, from the threshing floor, and from the winepress. In other places it is explained that the first fruits of the earth are brought in the form of: a) dried and crushed grain, with oil and incense (Lev.2.14); b) the first sheaf of the harvest on the 16th of Abib (Exodus 23.19; Lev.23.10–11); two wave offerings on the day of Pentecost (Lev.23.17). In the commented verses, a new type of offering of the firstfruits is established: the offering of the firstfruits of dough in the form of a flatbread. The offerings were the property of the priests. Numbers 15:22. But if you transgress out of ignorance and do not fulfill all these commandments which the Lord spoke to Moses, Numbers 15:23. everything that the Lord [God] commanded you by Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded you and henceforth throughout your generations, Numbers 15:24. then, if a mistake is made through an oversight of the community, let the whole community offer one young ox [without blemish] as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord, with a grain offering and its drink offering, according to the statute, and one goat for a sin offering; Numbers 15:25. and the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was a mistake, and they brought their offering to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their mistake; Numbers 15:26. and it will be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger who sojourns among them, because all the people did it in error. Numbers 15:27. If one sins out of ignorance, then let him offer a one-year-old goat as a sin offering; Numbers 15:28. and the priest will cleanse the soul that has mistakenly committed a sin before the Lord, and it will be cleansed and forgiven; Numbers 15:29. There shall be one law for you, both for the natural inhabitant of the children of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among you, if anyone does anything by mistake. Numbers 15:30. If any of the natives, or of the strangers, does anything with a bold hand, then he blasphemes the Lord: that soul will be cut off from among his people, “To do it with a bold hand” means to fall into sin not out of weakness, ignorance or mistake, but deliberately, with the aim of openly opposing the law. Numbers 15:38. declare to the children of Israel and tell them to make tassels for themselves on the edges of their clothes throughout their generations, and in the tassels that are on the edges they insert threads of blue wool; “Made of blue wool”, because the color is blue, explains the blessed one. Theodorite reminds a person of heaven (Interpretation of the book of Numbers, issue 31). Subsequently, the custom of sewing on tassels was preserved, but the meaning of this custom was lost, as we see from the Savior’s accusatory speeches. Currently, Jews use the tallit (tasseled blanket) only during synagogue services. You might be interested in: