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Numbers 15 |
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| 15:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into
the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, |
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And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a
sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn
feasts, to make a
sweet savour unto the LORD , of the herd or of the flock: |
(15:3, 13-14, 24) God gives more instructions for the
ritualistic killing of animals. The smell of burning flesh is "a sweet
savour unto the Lord."
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Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat
offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of
oil. |
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And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou
prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. |
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Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of
flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil. |
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And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of
wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. |
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And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice
in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the LORD: |
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Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of
flour mingled with half an hin of oil. |
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And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. |
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Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a
kid. |
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According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one
according to their number. |
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All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner,
in offering an offering
made by fire, of a
sweet savour unto the LORD. |
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And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your
generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of
a sweet savour unto the LORD ; as ye do,
so he shall do. |
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One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the
stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your
generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD. |
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One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that
sojourneth with you. |
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into
the land whither I bring you, |
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Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall
offer up an heave offering unto the LORD. |
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Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering:
as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it. |
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Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering
in your generations. |
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And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the
LORD hath spoken unto Moses, |
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Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the
day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations; |
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Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge
of the congregation, that all
the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for
a sweet savour unto the
LORD, with his
meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid
of the goats for a sin offering. |
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And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the
children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and
they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and
their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance: |
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And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel,
and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in
ignorance. |
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And if any soul sin
through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year
for a sin offering. |
"If a soul sin through ignorance"
But how can someone sin through ignorance? Don't you have to know that
an action is wrong for it to be sinful? Oh well, if you do happen to sin through
ignorance, you can be forgiven by God if you kill some animals. Of course Paul disagrees
in Heb.10:4,
11.
Do animal sacrifices take away sins?
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And the priest shall
make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when
he sinneth by ignorance
before the LORD, to
make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
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Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him
that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that
sojourneth among them.
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But the soul that
doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger,
the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his
people. |
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Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his
commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon
him. |
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And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that
gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. |
"A man that
gathered sticks upon the sabbath day."
The Israelites find a man picking up
sticks on the sabbath. God commands them to kill him by throwing rocks at him.
Is it necessary to keep the Sabbath?
How should Sabbath-breakers be punished?
To kill or not to kill.
What the Bible says about stoning
How many has God killed?
(Complete list and estimated total)
Biblical
Justice: Everybody must get stoned
Sabbath-Breaker Stoned
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And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron,
and unto all the congregation.
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And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done
to him.
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And the LORD said unto
Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation
shall stone him with stones without the camp.
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And all the
congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and
he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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Speak unto the
children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders
of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the
fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: |
God's instructions for making fringes on garments
Immediately after ordering the execution
of the sabbath breaker, God gets down to some more important business -- like
instructing the people on how to make fringes on their garments.
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And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and
remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own
heart and your own eyes , after which ye use to go a whoring: |
Contrary to Ec.11:9, we are told not to listen to our
own hearts.
Should we follow our own hearts?
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That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your
God. |
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I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be
your God: I am the LORD your God. |
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