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me, every one of you who is twenty years old or
older and was included in the registration will
die. 30 You will not enter and occupy the land I
swore to give you. The only exceptions will be
Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
31 “‘You said your children would be carried off
as plunder. Well, I will bring them safely into the
land, and they will enjoy what you have despised.
32 But as for you, you will drop dead in this wilderness. 33 And your children will be like shepherds,
wandering in the wilderness for forty years. In
this way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until
the last of you lies dead in the wilderness.
34 “‘Because your men explored the land for
forty days, you must wander in the wilderness
for forty years—a year for each day, suffering the
consequences of your sins. Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an enemy.’ 35 I,
the Lord, have spoken! I will certainly do these
things to every member of the community who
has conspired against me. They will be destroyed
here in this wilderness, and here they will die!”
36 The ten men Moses had sent to explore the
land—the ones who incited rebellion against
the Lord with their bad report—37 were struck
dead with a plague before the Lord. 38 Of the
twelve who had explored the land, only Joshua
and Caleb remained alive.
39 When Moses reported the Lord’s words to
all the Israelites, the people were filled with
grief. 40 Then they got up early the next morning
and went to the top of the range of hills. “Let’s
go,” they said. “We realize that we have sinned,
but now we are ready to enter the land the Lord
has promised us.”
41 But Moses said, “Why are you now disobeying the Lord’s orders to return to the wilderness? It won’t work. 42 Do not go up into the land
now. You will only be crushed by your enemies
because the Lord is not with you. 43 When you
face the Amalekites and Canaanites in battle,
you will be slaughtered. The Lord will abandon
you because you have abandoned the Lord.”
44 But the people defiantly pushed ahead toward the hill country, even though neither Moses
nor the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant left the camp.
45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who
lived in those hills came down and attacked
them and chased them back as far as Hormah.
Laws concerning Offerings
Then the Lord told Moses, 2 “Give the
following instructions to the people of
Israel.
“When you finally settle in the land I am giving you, 3 you will offer special gifts as a pleasing
aroma to the Lord. These gifts may take the form
of a burnt offering, a sacrifice to fulfill a vow,
a voluntary offering, or an offering at any of your
annual festivals, and they may be taken from
your herds of cattle or your flocks of sheep and
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goats. 4 When you present these offerings, you
must also give the Lord a grain offering of two
quarts* of choice flour mixed with one quart* of
olive oil. 5 For each lamb offered as a burnt offering or a special sacrifice, you must also present
one quart of wine as a liquid offering.
6 “If the sacrifice is a ram, give a grain offering of four quarts* of choice flour mixed with a
third of a gallon* of olive oil, 7 and give a third
of a gallon of wine as a liquid offering. This will
be a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
8 “When you present a young bull as a burnt
offering or as a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a
peace offering to the Lord, 9 you must also give
a grain offering of six quarts* of choice flour
mixed with two quarts* of olive oil, 10 and give
two quarts of wine as a liquid offering. This will
be a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
11 “Each sacrifice of a bull, ram, lamb, or
young goat should be prepared in this way.
12 Follow these instructions with each offering
you present. 13 All of you native-born Israelites
must follow these instructions when you offer
a special gift as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
14 And if any foreigners visit you or live among
you and want to present a special gift as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, they must follow these
same procedures. 15 Native-born Israelites and
foreigners are equal before the Lord and are
subject to the same decrees. This is a permanent
law for you, to be observed from generation to
generation. 16 The same instructions and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigners living among you.”
17 Then the Lord said to Moses, 18 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel.
“When you arrive in the land where I am taking you, 19 and you eat the crops that grow there,
you must set some aside as a sacred offering to
the Lord. 20 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. 21 Throughout the generations
to come, you are to present a sacred offering
to the Lord each year from the first of your
ground flour.
22 “But suppose you unintentionally fail to
carry out all these commands that the Lord has
given you through Moses. 23 And suppose your
descendants in the future fail to do everything
the Lord has commanded through Moses. 24 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
15:4a Hebrew 1 ⁄10 of an ephah [2.2 liters]. 15:4b Hebrew 1 ⁄4 of
a hin [1 liter]; also in 15:5. 15:6a Hebrew 2 ⁄10 of an ephah
[4.4 liters]. 15:6b Hebrew 1 ⁄3 of a hin [1.3 liters]; also in 15:7.
15:9a Hebrew 3 ⁄10 of an ephah [6.6 liters]. 15:9b Hebrew 1 ⁄2 of
a hin [2 liters]; also in 15:10.