This chapter almost feels out of place. The children of Israel have just rebelled against their leadership and God, and have been condemned to spend the next 40 years in the wilderness. Then he goes back into giving instructions about making offerings and emphasizes the importance of obedience; but the instructions are for that next generation that is being raised up.

Numbers 15

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them ‘When you come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,

3 And make an offering by fire to 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 pleasing aroma to the LORD, from the herd or the flock:

4 Then he that offers his offering to the LORD shall bring a grain offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil.

5 And you shall prepare the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.

6 Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a grain offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil.

7 And for a drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

8 When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings to the LORD:

9 Then bring with the bull a grain offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half a hin of oil.

10 And you shall bring half a hin of wine for a drink offering, for an offering made by fire, for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

11 This is how it is to be done for one bull, one ram, a lamb, or a kid.

12 According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do to every one according to their number.

13 Every Israelite shall do these things in this way, in making an offering made by fire, of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

14 And if a foreigner stays with you, or anyone who is among you in your generations, and desires to offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasing aroma to the LORD; as you do, he shall do it as you do. 

15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that lives with you, an ordinance forever in your generations: as you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

16 One law and one way shall be for you, and for the foreigner that lives among you.”

17 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

18 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them ‘When you come into the land where I bring you,

19 When you eat of the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the LORD.

20 You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an offering: as you offer the contribution of the threshingfloor, so shall you present it.

21 From the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD a contribution in your generations.

22 If you sin unintentionally, and have not observed all these commandments, which the LORD has spoken to Moses,

23 all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and since then among your generations;

24 Then it shall be, if anything was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain and drink offering, as instructed, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

25 The priest shall make 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 to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their unintentional sin.

26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the foreigner that lives among them, seeing all the people were unaware.

27 If one person sins unintentionally, then he shall bring a female goat of the first year for a sin offering.

28 The priest shall make atonement for the person that sins unintentionally before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven.

29 You shall have one law for him that sins unintentionally, both for the native of the  children of Israel, and for the foreigner that lives among them.

30 But a person that acts defiantly, whether he is native or foreign, the same blasphemes the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

31 Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his commandment, that person shall utterly be cut off; his guilt shall be on him.’”

32 While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks on the sabbath day.

33 And the ones that found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

34 And they put him in custody, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

35 And the LORD said to Moses “The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”

36 And all the congregation brought him out of the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

37 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

38 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them to make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of the borders a ribbon of blue:

39 These will serve as tassels for you to look at, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that you do not seek after your own heart and your own eyes, which lead you to be unfaithful;

40 That you may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

41 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.”

See also: Numbers 15 in ESV, HCSB, NASB and NIV via Bible Gateway.