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Numbers 15:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

This law will never change. I am the LORD, and I consider all people the same, whether they are Israelites or foreigners living among you.

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Now every year the Jews set aside these two days for having parties and celebrating, just as they were told to do.

Remember this day and celebrate it each year as a festival in my honour.

After you have entered the country promised to you by the LORD, you and your children must continue to celebrate Passover each year.

The LORD gave Moses and Aaron the following instructions for celebrating Passover: No one except Israelites may eat the Passover meal.

This law applies both to native Israelites and to those foreigners who live among you.

Whenever they enter the sacred tent or serve at the altar or enter the holy place, they must wear these shorts, or else they will be guilty and die. This same rule applies to any of their descendants who serve as priests.

I am the LORD your God, and I demand equal justice both for you Israelites and for those foreigners who live among you.

The priests of Aaron's family will be the ones to blow the trumpets, and this law will never change.

And the foreigners who live among you must also follow these rules.

The law will be the same for anyone who does wrong without meaning to, whether an Israelite or a foreigner living among you.

The LORD said to Aaron: I have put you in charge of the sacred gifts and sacrifices that the Israelites bring to me. And from now on, you, your sons, and your descendants will receive part of the sacrifices for sin, as well as part of the grain sacrifices, and the sacrifices to make things right. Your share of these sacrifices will be the parts not burnt on the altar.

Anyone, including foreigners who live among you, can celebrate Passover, if they follow all the regulations.

Faith in Christ Jesus is what makes each of you equal with each other, whether you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a man or a woman.

It doesn't matter if you are a Greek or a Jew, or if you are circumcised or not. You may even be a barbarian or a Scythian, and you may be a slave or a free person. Yet Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.

Moses had said that everyone in Israel was to go to the valley between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, where they were to be blessed. So everyone went there, including the foreigners, the leaders, officials, and judges. Half of the people stood on one side of the valley, and half on the other side, with the priests from the Levi tribe standing in the middle with the sacred chest. Then in a loud voice, Joshua read the blessings and curses from The Book of the Law of Moses.

David made this a law for Israel, and it has been the same ever since.




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