Numbers 15:27-41

²⁷If one person commits a sin without realizing that he was sinning, that person must bring to me a female goat to be an offering to enable me to forgive that person for the sins that person has committed.

²⁸The priest will offer it to be a sacrifice to remove the guilt of that person, and that person will be forgiven.

²⁹You Israelis and all the foreigners who live among you must obey these same instructions.

³⁰But those who disobey my commands ◄deliberately/because they want to►, both Israelis and the foreigany moreners who live among you, have sinned against me by doing that. So ◄they must be expelled/you must expel them► from your camp.

³¹They have despised my commands and deliberately disobeyed them, so they must be punished for their sin by not being allowed to live among you anymore.”

³²One day, while the Israelis were in the desert, some of them saw a man who was gathering firewood on the Sabbath/rest day.

³³Those who saw him doing that brought him to Aaron and Moses/me and the rest of the Israeli people.

³⁴They guarded him carefully, because they did not know what to do to punish him.

³⁵Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “The man must be executed. All of you must kill him by throwing stones at him outside the camp.”

³⁶So they all took the man outside the camp and killed him by throwing stones at him, as Yahweh had commanded Moses/me that they should do.

³⁷Yahweh also said to Moses/me,

³⁸“Tell this to the Israeli people: You and all your descendants must twist threads together to make tassels, and then attach them with blue cords to the bottom edges of your clothes.

³⁹When you look at the tassels, you will remember all the instructions that I gave to you, and you will obey them, instead of doing what you desire and as a result causing yourselves to become unacceptable to me.

⁴⁰Seeing those tassels will help you to remember that you must obey all my commands and that you must be ◄my holy people/dedicated to me►.

⁴¹Do not forget that I am Yahweh, your God. I am the one who brought you out of Egypt in order that you might belong to me. I am Yahweh, your God.”