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Israelite community, "The land we crossed through to explore is an exceptionally good land. 8If the LORD is pleased with us, he'll bring us into this land and give it to us. It's a land that's full of milk and honey. 9Only don't rebel against the LORD and don't be afraid of the people of the land. They are our prey.r Their defense has deserted them, but the LORD is with us. So don't be afraid of them."10But the entire community intended to stone them.
The LORD's anger and Moses' intercession
Then the LORD's glory appeared in the meeting tent to all the Israelites. 11The LORD said to Moses, "How long will these people disrespect me? And how long will they doubt me after all the signs that I performed among them?12I'll strike them down with a plague and disown them. Then I'll make you into a great nation, stronger than they."
13Moses said to the LORD, "The Egyptians will hear, for with your power you brought these people up from among them. 14They'll tell the inhabitants of this land. They've heard that you, LORD, are with this people. You, LORD, appear to them face-to-face. Your cloud stands over them. You go before them in a column of cloud by day and in a column of lightning by night. 15If you kill these people, every last one of them, the nations who heard about you will say,16'The LORD wasn't able to bring these people to the land that he solemnly promised to give them. So he slaughtered them in the desert.'17Now let my master's power be as great as you declared when you said,18'The LORD is very patient and absolutely loyal, forgiving wrongs and disloyalty. Yet he doesn't forgo all punishment, disciplining the grandchildren and great-grandchildren for their ancestors' wrongs.'19Please forgive the wrongs of these people because of your absolute loyalty, just as you've forgiven these people from their time in Egypt until now."
20Then the LORD said, "I will forgive as you requested. 21But as I live and as the LORD's glory fills the entire earth,22none of the men who saw my glory and the signs I did in Egypt and in the desert, but tested me these ten times and haven't listened to my voice,23will see the land I promised to their ancestors. All who disrespected me won't see it. 24But I'll bring my servant Caleb into the land that he explored, and his descendants will possess it because he has a different spirit, and he has remained true to me. 25Since the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valley, tomorrow turn and march into the desert by the route of the Reed Sea."s
The Israelites' punishment
26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron: 27How long will this wicked community complain against me? I've heard the Israelites' dissent as they continue to complain against me. 28Say to them, "As I live," says the LORD, "just as I've heard you say, so I'll do to you. 29Your dead bodies will fall in this desert. None of you who were enlisted and were registered from 20 years old and above, who complained against me,30will enter the land in which I promisedt to settle you, with the exception of Caleb, Jephunneh's son, and Joshua, Nun's son. 31But your children, whom you said would be taken by force, I'll bring them in and they will know the land that you rejected. 32Your bodies, however, will fall in this desert,33and your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies fall in the desert. 34For as many days as you explored the land, that is, forty days, just as many years you'll bear your guilt, that is, forty years. This is how you will understand my frustration."35I the LORD have spoken. I will do this to the entire wicked community who gathered against me. They will die in this desert. There they'll meet their end.
36The men whom Moses sent out to explore the land had returned and caused the entire community to complain against him by starting a rumor about the land. 37These men died by a plague in the LORD's presence on account of their false rumor. 38But Joshua, Nun's son, and Caleb, Jephunneh's son, survived from those men who went to explore the land.
39Moses spoke these words to all the Israelites, and the people mourned bitterly. 40They rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain range, saying, "Let's go up to the place the LORD told us to, for we have sinned."
41But Moses said, "Why do you disobey the LORD's command? It won't succeed. 42Don't go up, for the LORD isn't with you. Don't be struck down before your enemies. 43The Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you and you will fall by the sword because you turned away from the LORD, and the LORD is no longer with you."44Yet they recklesslyu ascended toward the top of the mountains, even though Moses and the LORD's chest containing the covenant didn't depart from the camp. 45Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites, who lived in those mountains, descended, struck them down, and beat them all the way to Hormah.
Immigrants in the land of Canaan
Numbers 15The LORD spoke to Moses: 2Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land where you will live, which I am giving you, 3and you make a food giftv to the LORD as a soothing smell for the LORD from the herd or the flock--whether an entirely burned offering, or a sacrifice to fulfill a solemn promise, or a spontaneous gift, or at your sacred seasons--4the one presenting the offering to the LORD will bring a grain offering of one-tenth of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hinw of oil. 5You will also offer one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering with either the entirely burned offering or the sacrifice, for each lamb. 6For a ram you will offer a grain offering of two-tenths of a measure of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil. 7You will also present one-third of a hin of wine for a drink offering as a soothing smell for the LORD. 8When you offer a bull for an entirely burned offering, or a sacrifice to fulfill a solemn promise, or a well-being sacrifice to the LORD, 9you will presentx with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of a measure of fine flour mixed with a half hin of oil. 10You will present a half hin of wine for a drink offering as a food gift that is a soothing smell to the LORD. 11So will it be done with each ox, each ram, or for any sheep or goat. 12However many you offer, you will do the same for each one.
13Every citizen will perform these rituals in bringing a food gift that is a soothing smell to the LORD. 14If an immigrant lives with you or has settled among you for many years and would also like to offer a food gift that is a soothing smell to the LORD, that person must do just as you do. 15The assembly will have the same regulation for you and for the immigrant. The regulation will be permanent for all time. You and the immigrant will be the same in the LORD's presence. 16There will be one set of instructions and one legal norm for the immigrant and for you.
17The LORD spoke to Moses: 18Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land to which I'm bringing you, 19whenever you eat the land's food you will present a gift offering to the LORD. 20You will present a gift offering from the first bread you bake just like you present a gift offering from the threshing floor. 21You will give a gift offering from the first bread you bake for all time.
Offerings for accidental sin
22If by accident you don't obey all these commands that the LORD spoke to Moses, 23or everything that the LORD commanded you through Moses from the day of the LORD's command onward for all time, 24then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the community, the entire community must offer one bull from the herd as an entirely burned offering, a soothing smell to the LORD, with its grain and drink offering according to the specific instruction, and one male goat for a purification offering. 25The priest will seek reconciliation for the entire Israelite community. They will be forgiven, because it was unintentional and because they brought their food gift to the LORD, along with their purification offering in the LORD's presence for their accidental error. 26The entire Israelite community and the immigrant residing among them will be forgiven, because all the people acted unintentionally.
27If an individual sins unintentionally, that