The Wilderness Years

Speak to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them: When you shall be come unto the land of your habitation, which I will give you,

And shall make an offering to the Lord, for a holocaust, or a victim, paying your vows, or voluntarily offering gifts, or in your solemnities burning a sweet savour unto the Lord, of oxen or of sheep:

Whosoever immolateth the victim, shall offer a sacrifice of fine flour, the tenth part of an ephi, tempered with the fourth part of a hin of oil:

And he shall give the same measure of wine to pour out in libations for the holocaust or for the victim. For every lamb,

And for every ram there shall be a sacrifice of flour of two tenths, which shall be tempered with the third part of a hin of oil:

And he shall offer the third part the same measure of wine for the libation, for a sweet savour to the Lord.

But when thou offerest a holocaust or sacrifice of oxen, to fulfil thy vow or for victims of peace offerings,

Thou shalt give for every ox three tenths of flour tempered with half a hin of oil,

And wine for libations of the same measure, for an offering of most sweet savour to the Lord.

Thus shalt thou do

For every ox and ram and lamb and kid.

Both they that are born in the land, and the strangers

Shall offer sacrifices after the same rite.

There shall be all one law and judgment both for you and for them who are strangers in the land.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them:

When you are come into the land which I will give you,

And shall eat of the bread of that country, you shall separate firstfruits to the Lord,

Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your barnfloors:

So also shall you give firstfruits of your dough to the Lord.

And if through ignorance you omit any of these things, which the Lord hath spoken to Moses,

And by him hath commanded you from the day that he began to command and thenceforward,

And the multitude have forgotten to do it: they shall offer a calf out of the herd, a holocaust for a most sweet savour to the Lord, and the sacrifice and libations thereof, as the ceremonies require, and a buck goat for sin:

And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children of Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned ignorantly, offering notwithstanding a burnt offering to the Lord for themselves and for their sin and their Ignorance:

And it shall be forgiven all the people of the children of Israel: and the strangers that sojourn among them: because it is the fault of all the people through ignorance.