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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses, saying,
2Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of your settlements, which I am giving you,
3and you make a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., a whole offering or a sacrifice, to mark a vow or as a free gift or at your appointed times, to make a soothing scent for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. from the herd or from the flock,
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Isheh is a food gift. Olah is a whole offering. Lephalle neder is to mark a vow, to set it apart as fulfilled. Nedavah is a free gift. Mo’ed is an appointed time. Reach nichoach is a soothing scent.
4the one who brings it near shall bring his A gift brought close to God. near to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., a grain gift of fine flour, a tenth, mixed with a quarter of a A measure for liquids such as oil and wine. of oil.
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An issaron is a tenth of an ephah, as in Leviticus. The hin is not converted.
5You shall make wine for the drink offering, a quarter of a A measure for liquids such as oil and wine., on the whole offering or on the sacrifice, for the one lamb.
6Or for the ram you shall make a grain gift of fine flour, two tenths, mixed with oil, a third of a A measure for liquids such as oil and wine.,
7and wine for the drink offering, a third of a A measure for liquids such as oil and wine.. You shall bring it near, a soothing scent for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
8When you make a son of the herd a whole offering, or a sacrifice to mark a vow, or a sacrifice of well-being to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.,
9one shall bring near, on the son of the herd, a grain gift of fine flour, three tenths, mixed with oil, half a A measure for liquids such as oil and wine.,
10and you shall bring wine near for the drink offering, half a A measure for liquids such as oil and wine., a food gift, a soothing scent for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
11So it shall be done for the one bull, or for the one ram, or for a young animal among the lambs or among the goats.
12According to the number you prepare, so you shall do for each one, according to their number.
13Every native shall do these things this way, to bring near a food gift, a soothing scent for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
14When a A person living in a land that is not their own. sojourns with you, or whoever is in your midst through your generations, and he would make a food gift, a soothing scent for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., as you do, so he shall do.
15As for the assembly, there is one A rule that is meant to last. for you and for the A person living in a land that is not their own. who sojourns, a lasting A rule that is meant to last. through your generations. As you are, so the A person living in a land that is not their own. shall be before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
16One instruction and one rule shall there be for you and for the A person living in a land that is not their own. who sojourns with you.
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Torah here is instruction. Mishpat is a rule. Ger is the sojourner. Ezrach, in the verses around this one, is the native.
17God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses, saying,
18Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land where I am bringing you,
19and it happens that you eat of the bread of the land, you shall raise a contribution to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
20The first of your dough, a loaf, you shall raise as a contribution. As the contribution of the Beating cut grain so the seeds fall loose. floor, so you shall raise it.
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Arisah is the dough. Challah is a loaf from it. Terumah is a contribution, as in Exodus.
21From the first of your dough you shall give a contribution to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. through your generations.
22If you go astray and do not do all these commands that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses,
23all that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded and onward, through your generations,
24then if it was done by mistake, hidden from the eyes of the congregation, the whole congregation shall make one bull, a son of the herd, as a whole offering for a soothing scent for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., with its grain gift and its drink offering according to the rule, and one male goat as an offense offering.
25The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was a mistake. They have brought their A gift brought close to God., a food gift to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and their offense offering before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., for their mistake.
26It shall be forgiven the whole congregation of the sons of Israel and the A person living in a land that is not their own. who sojourns in their midst, because the whole people was in the mistake.
27If one person sins by mistake, that person shall bring near a female goat in its first year as an offense offering.
28The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for the person who erred, when that person sins by mistake before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., to make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for that person, and it shall be forgiven.
29For the native among the sons of Israel and for the A person living in a land that is not their own. who sojourns in their midst, you shall have one instruction for the one who acts by mistake.
30But the person who acts with a raised hand, from the native or from the A person living in a land that is not their own., reviles God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. That person shall be cut off from the midst of that person’s people.
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Beyad ramah is with a raised hand, in the open. Megaddef is reviles. The act is not hidden, and the verse does not treat it as a mistake.
31Because that person despised God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s word and broke his command, that person shall be cut off, cut off. That person’s guilt is on that person.
32The sons of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering wood on the A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. day.
33Those who found him gathering wood brought him near to Moses and to Aaron and to the whole congregation.
34They put him under guard, because it had not been set out what should be done to him.
35God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, The man shall be put to death, put to death. The whole congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.
36The whole congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded Moses.
37God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, saying,
38Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, They shall make themselves tassels on the corners of their garments, through their generations, and they shall put a cord of violet-blue on the tassel of the corner.
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Tzitzit is a tassel. Kanfei is the corners, the wings, of the garment. Petil tekhelet is a cord of violet-blue, the same dye as in the dwelling.
39It shall be a tassel for you. You shall see it and remember all God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s commands and do them, and you shall not go scouting after your own heart and after your own eyes, which you go straying after.
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Taturu is the same verb as the scouting of the land. Here it is going off after one’s own heart and eyes. Zonim is going astray, the word used for unfaithfulness.
40So you shall remember and do all my commands, and you shall be holy to your God.
41I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
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The Hebrew is YHWH Elohim, twice. Yahweh is the name. God is Elohim. See the glossary.