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Numbers 15:25 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error. "
Numbers 15:25
Verse in Context
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23 even all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment and onward throughout your generations—
24 then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to the LORD, with its meal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.
25 The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error.
26 All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly.
27 “‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.
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Numbers 15:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"
Numbers 15:2
"“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,"
Numbers 15:3
"and will make an offering by fire to the LORD—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock—"
Numbers 15:4
"then he who offers his offering shall offer to the LORD a meal offering of one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one fourth of a hin of oil."
Numbers 15:5
"You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb."
Numbers 15:6
"“‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil;"
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