Numbers 15:17-36

¹⁷And the Lord spake to Moses, and said,

¹⁸Speak thou to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye come into the land which I shall give to you,

¹⁹and ye eat of the loaves of that country, ye shall separate a little cake of your pastes to the Lord;

²⁰as ye shall separate the first fruits of your cornfloors,

²¹so ye shall give the first fruits also of your sowls or pottage to the Lord.

²²That if by ignorance ye pass by any of those things which the Lord spake to Moses,

²³and hath commanded by him to you, from the day in which he began to command, and over,

²⁴and the multitude hath forgotten to do this, it shall offer a calf of the drove, burnt sacrifice into sweetest odour to the Lord, and the sacrifices thereof, and flowing offerings, as the ceremonies thereof ask; and it shall offer a buck of goats for sin.

²⁵And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the sons of Israel, and it shall be forgiven to them, for they sinned not willfully. And nevertheless they shall offer incense to the Lord for themselves, and for their sin, and their error;

²⁶and it shall be forgiven to all the people of the sons of Israel, and to the comelings that be pilgrims among them, for it is the sin of all the multitude by ignorance.

²⁷That if a soul sinneth unwittingly, it shall offer a she-goat of one year for his sin;

²⁸and the priest shall pray for that soul, for it sinned unwittingly before the Lord; and the priest shall get forgiveness to it, and the sin shall be forgiven to it.

²⁹As well to men born in the land, as to comelings, one law shall be of all that sin unwittingly.

³⁰Forsooth a man that doeth any sin by pride, shall perish from the people, whether he be a citizen, either a pilgrim, for he was rebel against the Lord;

³¹for he despised the word of the Lord, and made void his command-ment; therefore he shall be done away, and shall bear his own wickedness.

³²Soothly it was done, when the sons of Israel were in wilderness, and they had found a man gathering wood in the sabbath day,

³³they brought him to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the multitude;

³⁴the which enclosed, or put, him into prison, and they knew not what they should do to him.

³⁵And the Lord said to Moses, This man die by death; all the company oppress him with stones without or away from the tents.

³⁶And when they had led him withoutforth, they killed him with stones, and he was dead, as the Lord commanded.