Numbers 15:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.”
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“The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations: as ye are, so shall the sojourner be before Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`One statute is for you of the congregation and for the sojourner who is sojourning, a statute age-during to your generations: as ye <FI>are<Fi> so is the sojourner before Jehovah;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 15:15 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 12:14And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
- Exodus 12:24And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.
- Exodus 12:43And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
- Exodus 12:49The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
- Exodus 28:43Aaron and his sons must wear them whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they will not incur guilt and die. This is to be a permanent statute for Aaron and his descendants.
- Leviticus 24:22You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
- Numbers 9:14If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”
- Numbers 10:8The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you and the generations to come.
- Numbers 15:29You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.
- Numbers 18:8Then the LORD said to Aaron, “Behold, I have put you in charge of My offerings. As for all the sacred offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a permanent statute.
- Joshua 8:33All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded earlier, to bless the people of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 30:25And so it has been from that day forward. David established this statute as an ordinance for Israel to this very day.
- Esther 9:27the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
- Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Ephesians 2:11Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
- Colossians 3:11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
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