Leviticus 5

Sin of Concealing Information

(1) " 'If a person sins, by hearing the voice of someone swearing an oath, and is a witness, whether he has seen or known of it; if he does not tell of it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Sin of Touching an Unclean Thing

(2) Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it is a carcase of an unclean wild beast, or a carcase of unclean domestic animal, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it is hidden from him, he also shall be unclean, and guilty.

(3) Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever uncleanness it is that a man is defiled with, and it is hid from him, when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.

Making an Oath

(4) Or if a person swears an oath, speaking rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man shall rashly swear with an oath, and it is hid from him, when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these matters.

Trespass Offering of the Flock

(5) It shall be, when he realizes he is guilty in one of these matters, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing,

(6) and he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.

Trespass Offering of Fowls

(7) If he is not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for the trespass which he has committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the LORD, one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

(8) And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it into separate pieces.

(9) He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the bottom of the altar; it is a sin offering.

(10) And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he has committed, and it shall be forgiven him.

Trespass Offering of Flour

(11) But if he is not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

(12) Then he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it, as a memorial, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD; it is a sin offering.

(13) And the priest shall make an atonement for him because of sin that he has committed in any of these things, and it shall be forgiven him; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as a grain offering.' "

Trespass Offering in Sins of Ignorance

(14) The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

(15) "If a person commits a trespass, and sins through ignorance, in any of the holy things of the LORD, then he shall bring for his trespass offering to the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with your estimation in shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.

(16) And he shall make amends for the harm that he has done in the holy thing, and shall add one-fifth to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

Trespass Offering For Unknown Sins

(17) If a person sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD, though he did not know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

(18) And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest, and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance in which he erred and did not know it, and it shall be forgiven him.

(19) It is a trespass offering, for he has certainly trespassed against the LORD."

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