
26So the whole community of Israel will be forgiven, including foreigners who are living among them, since all the people were involved in the unintentional wrongdoing. 27"If one person unintentionally does something wrong, a one-year-old female goat must be sacrificed as an offering for sin. 28The priest will offer the sacrifice to make peace with the LORD for that person, and that person will be forgiven. 29You must give the same instructions to everyone who does something wrong unintentionally, whether they are native-born Israelites or not. 30"But any native-born Israelite or foreigner who deliberately does something wrong insults the LORD and must be excluded from the people. 31That person has despised the word of the LORD and broken the LORD's command. He must be excluded completely. He remains guilty." 32While the Israelites were in the desert, they found a man gathering wood on the day of worship. 33Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole community. 34They kept him in custody until they decided what to do with him. 35Then the LORD said to Moses, "This man must be put to death. The whole community must take him outside the camp and stone him." 36So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses. 37The LORD said to Moses, 38"Speak to the Israelites and tell them: For generations to come they must wear tassels on the corners of their clothes with violet threads in each tassel. 39Whenever you look at the threads in the tassel, you will remember all the LORD's commands and obey them. Then you won't do whatever you want and go after whatever you see, as if you were chasing after prostitutes. 40You will remember to obey all my commands, and you will be holy to your God. 41I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God."
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