2 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'After you enter the land I am giving you as a home
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,
2 "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, When you enter your homeland that I am giving to you
2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you,
2 "Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. "When you finally settle in the land I am giving you,
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Numbers 15:2
Commentary on Numbers 15:1-21
(Read Numbers 15:1-21)
Full instructions are given about the meat-offerings and drink-offerings. The beginning of this law is very encouraging, When ye come into the land of your habitation which I give unto you. This was a plain intimation that God would secure the promised land to their seed. It was requisite, since the sacrifices of acknowledgment were intended as the food of God's table, that there should be a constant supply of bread, oil, and wine, whatever the flesh-meat was. And the intent of this law is to direct the proportions of the meat-offering and drink-offering. Natives and strangers are placed on a level in this as in other like matters. It was a happy forewarning of the calling of the Gentiles, and of their admission into the church. If the law made so little difference between Jew and Gentile, much less would the gospel, which broke down the partition-wall, and reconciled both to God.