After reading Numbers 15:
*We read how offerings are to be presented when the Israelites make the promised land their home. All foreigners are to follow the same rules and regulations as the Israelites, no matter what they actually believe. The first portion of any food from the land is given to the priest, excuse me, Yahweh.
*If anyone unintentionally breaks a rule, without the community knowing it, the community is to offer a particular sacrifice and the whole community will be forgiven, because they shared in the sin. This makes no sense to me. Sacrifice and forgiveness for sins no one recognizes?
*So, while the Israelites were in the desert (notice the past tense phrasing by someone who was obviously not Moses and had not been in the desert with the Israelites.) a man gathered wood on the sabbath. Horrors! What is the world coming to? They took him into custody and Yahweh, or rather Moses speaking for Yahweh, said the man must die. So the Israelites stoned him to death. Because picking up a few sticks on a Saturday is one of the most abominable things a human can do. So, my dear children, this should remind you to always do what Moses told the Israelites, that Yahweh told him, that they should do.
*Now this is really important, so listen close. Yahweh also told Moses to tell the Israelites to wear tassels with blue cords on the corners of their garments. These tassels have magical power to remind them to keep god's commands when they look at them. This would help prevent them from getting stoned, that is beaten to a bloody pulp by people throwing rocks, till they die.
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