Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 15

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

Numbers 15:1

Then the LORD said to Moses,

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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

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Numbers 15:2

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home

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Numbers 15:3

and you present an offering made by fire to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—

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Heb. separating

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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

  • Genesis 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

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Numbers 15:4

then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.

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Numbers 15:5

With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.

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Numbers 15:6

With a ram you are to prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of olive oil,

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Numbers 15:7

and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Numbers 15:8

When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,

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Numbers 15:9

present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil.

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Numbers 15:10

Also present half a hin of wine as a drink offering. It is an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Numbers 15:11

This is to be done for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat.

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Numbers 15:12

This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.

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Numbers 15:14

And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he is to do exactly as you do.

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Numbers 15:15

The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.

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Numbers 15:16

The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”

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Numbers 15:17

Then the LORD said to Moses,

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Numbers 15:18

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you

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Numbers 15:19

and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.

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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 harvest2 parallels

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

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Numbers 15:20

From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.

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Numbers 15:21

Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.

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Numbers 15:22

Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—

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This law concerning sins of ignorance , being entirely di#### Verse from one before considered , occasions considerable difficulty . Lev. 4. Some explain that law as relating to sins of commission , this to sins of omission9 parallels

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

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Numbers 15:24

and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.

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without Heb. from the eyes

manner or , ordinance

Numbers 15:25

The priest is to make atonement for the whole congregation of Israel, so that they may be forgiven; for the sin was unintentional and they have brought to the LORD an offering made by fire and a sin offering, presented before the LORD for their unintentional sin.

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Numbers 15:27

Also, if one person sins unintentionally, he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.

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Numbers 15:28

And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the person who erred by sinning unintentionally; and when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven.

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Numbers 15:29

You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.

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sinneth Heb. doeth

Numbers 15:30

But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.

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presumptuously 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.

Numbers 15:31

He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”

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Numbers 15:32

While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

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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

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Numbers 15:33

Those who found the man gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation,

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Numbers 15:34

and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.

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Numbers 15:35

And the LORD said to Moses, "The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp."

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Numbers 15:36

So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Numbers 15:38

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.

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The word tzitzith properly denotes an ornament resembling a flower. From

  • Numbers 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
  • Deuteronomy 22:12
  • Matthew 9:20
  • Matthew 23:5
  • Luke 8:44

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Numbers 15:39

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

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Numbers 15:40

Then you will remember and obey all My commandments, and you will be holy to your God.

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Numbers 15:41

I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God.”

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web15 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Mark 3:29 → Numbers 15:30-31, 1 John 5:16-17 → Numbers 15:30, Numbers 15:18 → Exodus 23:19, Numbers 15:18 → Leviticus 23:10, Numbers 15:18-21 → Exodus 23:19, Numbers 15:18-21 → Leviticus 23:10-11, Numbers 15:32 → Exodus 35:2, Numbers 15:32-36 → Exodus 35:2-3
Echoes Ecclesiastes 11:9 → Numbers 15:39
Trajectories
First Fruits (Christ's Resurrection), Meat-Offering (Tribute and Thanksgiving), Pentecost (Outpouring of the Spirit), Pleasing Aroma (Divine Acceptance and Propitiation)
Chiasms
Shaped Numbers 15:1–21, Numbers 15:35–36
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