Leviticus 5:1–6

CASES REQUIRING SIN OFFERINGS

5“When someone sins in any of these ways:

If he has seen, heard, or known about something he has witnessed, and did not respond to a public call to testify, he will bear his iniquity.^o

²Or if someone touches anything unclean^p—a carcass of an unclean wild animal,^q or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature^r—without being aware of it, he is unclean and incurs guilt.^s

³Or if he touches human uncleanness^t—any uncleanness by which one can become defiled^u—without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he incurs guilt.

⁴Or if someone swears rashly^v to do what is good or evil—concerning anything a person may speak rashly in an oath—without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he incurs guilt in such an instance.

⁵If someone incurs guilt in one of these cases, he is to confess^a he has committed that sin. ⁶He must bring his penalty for guilt^b for the sin he has committed to the Lord: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement^c on his behalf for his sin.