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for a sin offering. 25 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. 26 The whole
community of Israel will be forgiven, including
the foreigners living among you, for all the
people were involved in the sin.
27 “If one individual commits an unintentional
sin, the guilty person must bring a one-year-old
female goat for a sin offering. 28 The priest will
sacrifice it to purify* the guilty person before the
Lord, and that person will be forgiven. 29 These
same instructions apply both to native-born
Israelites and to the foreigners living among you.
30 “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. 31 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.”
Penalty for Breaking the Sabbath
32 One day while the people of Israel were in the
wilderness, they discovered a man gathering
wood on the Sabbath day. 33 The people who
found him doing this took him before Moses,
Aaron, and the rest of the community. 34 They
held him in custody because they did not know
what to do with him. 35 Then the Lord said to
Moses, “The man must be put to death! The
whole community must stone him outside the
camp.” 36 So the whole community took the man
outside the camp and stoned him to death, just
as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Tassels on Clothing
37 Then the Lord said to Moses, 38 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel:
Throughout the generations to come you must
make tassels for the hems of your clothing and
attach them with a blue cord. 39 When you see
the tassels, you will remember and obey all the
commands of the Lord instead of following your
own desires and defiling yourselves, as you are
prone to do. 40 The tassels will help you remember that you must obey all my commands and be
holy to your God. 41 I am the Lord your God who
brought you out of the land of Egypt that I might
be your God. I am the Lord your God!”
Korah’s Rebellion
One day Korah son of Izhar, a descendant of Kohath son of Levi, conspired
with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab,
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15:25 Or will make atonement for the whole community of
Israel. 15:28 Or to make atonement for. 16:5 Greek version
reads God has visited and knows those who are his. Compare
2 Tim 2:19. 16:14 Hebrew Are you trying to put out the eyes
of these men?
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and On son of Peleth, from the tribe of Reuben. 2 They incited a rebellion against Moses,
along with 250 other leaders of the community,
all prominent members of the assembly. 3 They
united against Moses and Aaron and said, “You
have gone too far! The whole community of
Israel has been set apart by the Lord, and he
is with all of us. What right do you have to act
as though you are greater than the rest of the
Lord’s people?”
4 When Moses heard what they were saying,
he fell face down on the ground. 5 Then he said
to Korah and his followers, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will show us who belongs to him*
and who is holy. The Lord will allow only those
whom he selects to enter his own presence.
6 Korah, you and all your followers must prepare your incense burners. 7 Light fires in them
tomorrow, and burn incense before the Lord.
Then we will see whom the Lord chooses as
his holy one. You Levites are the ones who have
gone too far!”
8 Then Moses spoke again to Korah: “Now
listen, you Levites! 9 Does it seem insignificant
to you that the God of Israel has chosen you
from among all the community of Israel to be
near him so you can serve in the Lord’s Tabernacle and stand before the people to minister to
them? 10 Korah, he has already given this special
ministry to you and your fellow Levites. Are you
now demanding the priesthood as well? 11 The
Lord is the one you and your followers are really
revolting against! For who is Aaron that you are
complaining about him?”
12 Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they replied, “We
refuse to come before you! 13 Isn’t it enough
that you brought us out of Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us here in this
wilderness, and that you now treat us like your
subjects? 14 What’s more, you haven’t brought
us into another land flowing with milk and
honey. You haven’t given us a new homeland
with fields and vineyards. Are you trying to fool
these men?* We will not come.”
15 Then Moses became very angry and said
to the Lord, “Do not accept their grain offerings! I have not taken so much as a donkey
from them, and I have never hurt a single one
of them.” 16 And Moses said to Korah, “You and
all your followers must come here tomorrow
and present yourselves before the Lord. Aaron
will also be here. 17 You and each of your 250 followers must prepare an incense burner and put
incense on it, so you can all present them before the Lord. Aaron will also bring his incense
burner.”
18 So each of these men prepared an incense
burner, lit the fire, and placed incense on
it. Then they all stood at the entrance of the