Offerings in the Promised Land

Offerings in the Promised Land


The Lord said to Moses, 


“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. 


“When you arrive in the land, where I am taking you, and you eat the crops that grow there, you must set some aside, as a sacred offering to the Lord. 


Present a cake, from the first of the flour you grind, and set it aside, as a sacred offering, as you do with the first grain, from the threshing floor. 


Throughout the generations to come, you are to present a sacred offering, to the Lord, each year, from the first of your ground flour. 


“But suppose you, unintentionally, fail to carry out all these commands, that the Lord has given you, through Moses. 


And suppose your descendants, in the future, fail to do everything, that the Lord has commanded, through Moses. 


If the mistake was made unintentionally, and the community was unaware of it, the whole community must present a young bull, for a burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma, to the Lord. 


It must be offered, along with its prescribed grain offering, and liquid offering, and with one male goat, for a sin offering. 


With it, the priest will purify the whole community of Israel, making them right with the Lord, and they will be forgiven. 


For it was an unintentional sin, and they have corrected it, with their offerings to the Lord—the special gift and the sin offering. 


The whole community, of Israel, will be forgiven, including the foreigners living among you, for all the people were involved, in the sin. 


“If one individual commits an unintentional sin, the guilty person must bring a one-year-old female goat, for a sin offering. 


The priest will sacrifice it, to purify the guilty person, before the Lord, and that person will be forgiven. 


These same instructions apply both to native-born Israelites and to the foreigners, living among you. 


“But those, who brazenly violate the Lord’s will, whether native-born Israelites or foreigners, have blasphemed the Lord, and they must be cut off, from the community. 


Since they have treated the Lord’s word with contempt, and deliberately disobeyed His command, they must be completely cut off, and suffer the punishment, for their guilt.” 


Numbers 15:17–31 (NLT)


Praise be to God!


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