The Wilderness Years

"Tell the people of Isra'el, 'When you have come into the land where you are going to live, which I am giving to you,

and want to make an offering by fire to ADONAI - a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a special vow, or to be a voluntary offering, or at your designated times, to make a fragrant aroma for ADONAI - then, whether it is comes from the herd or from the flock,

the person bringing the offering is to present ADONAI with a grain offering consisting of two quarts of fine flour mixed with one quart of olive oil,

and one quart of wine for the drink offering. This is what you are to prepare with the burnt offering or for each lamb sacrificed.

"'For a ram, prepare one gallon of fine flour mixed with one-and-one-third quarts of olive oil;

while for the drink offering, you are to present one-and-one-third quarts of wine as a fragrant aroma for ADONAI.

"'When you prepare a bull as a burnt offering, as a sacrifice to fulfill a special vow or as peace offerings for ADONAI,

there is to be presented with the bull a grain offering of one-and-a-half gallons of fine flour mixed with two quarts of olive oil.

For the drink offering, present two quarts of wine for an offering made by fire, a fragant aroma for ADONAI.

"'Do it this way for each bull, ram, male lamb or kid.

For as many animals as you prepare, do this for each one, regardless of how many animals there are.

"'Every citizen is to do these things in this way when presenting an offering made by fire as a fragrant aroma for ADONAI.

If a foreigner stays with you - or whoever may be with you, through all your generations - and he wants to bring an offering made by fire as a fragrant aroma for ADONAI, he is to do the same as you.

For this community there will be the same law for you as for the foreigner living with you; this is a permanent regulation through all your generations; the foreigner is to be treated the same way before ADONAI as yourselves.

The same Torah and standard of judgment will apply to both you and the foreigner living with you.'"

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Speak to the people of Isra'el; tell them, 'When you enter the land where I am bringing you

and eat bread produced in the land, you are to set aside a portion as a gift for ADONAI.

Set aside from your first dough a cake as a gift; set it aside as you would set aside a portion of the grain from the threshing-floor.

From your first dough you will give ADONAI a portion as a gift through all your generations.

"'If by mistake you fail to observe all these mitzvot that ADONAI has spoken to Moshe,

yes, everything that ADONAI has ordered you to do through Moshe, from the day ADONAI gave the order and onward through all your generations,

then, if it was done by mistake by the community and was not known to them, the whole community is to offer one young bull for a burnt offering as a fragrant aroma to ADONAI, with its grain and drink offerings, in keeping with the rule, and one male goat as a sin offering.

The cohen is to make atonement for the whole community of the people of Isra'el; and they will be forgiven; because it was a mistake; and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire, to ADONAI, and their sin offering before ADONAI for their mistake.

The whole community of the people of Isra'el will be forgiven, likewise the foreigner staying with them; because for all the people it was a mistake.