Leviticus 5:14–6:7

THE GUILT OFFERING

¹⁴Then the Lord spoke to Moses: ¹⁵“If someone offends^l by sinning unintentionally^m in regard to any of the Lord’s holy things,^C he must bring his penalty for guilt to the Lord: an unblemished ram from the flock (based on your assessment of its value in silver shekels, according to the sanctuary shekelⁿ) as a guilt offering. ¹⁶He is to make restitution^o for his sin regarding any holy^p thing, adding a fifth of its value to it,^q and give it to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.^r

¹⁷“If someone sins and without knowing it violates any of the Lord’s commands concerning anything prohibited, he is guilty, and he will bear his iniquity. ¹⁸He must bring an unblemished ram from the flock according to your assessment of its value as a guilt offering to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the error he has committed unintentionally, and he will be forgiven. ¹⁹It is a guilt offering; he is indeed guilty before the Lord.”

6The Lord spoke to Moses: ²“When someone sins and offends the Lord by deceiving^s his neighbor in regard to a deposit,^t a security,^A or a robbery;^u or defrauds^v his neighbor; ³or finds something lost and lies about it;^w or swears falsely^x about any of the sinful things a person may do—⁴once he has sinned^y and acknowledged his guilt^z—he must return what he stole or defrauded, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost item he found, ⁵or anything else about which he swore falsely. He will make full restitution for it and add a fifth of its value to it.^aa He is to pay it to its owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt.^{ab 6}Then he is to bring his guilt offering^ac to the Lord: an unblemished^ad ram from the flock according to your assessment of its value as a guilt offering to the priest. ⁷In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf before the Lord, and he will be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.”^ae