Leviticus 5–6

5“If anyone sins in that he hears a public ^eadjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall ^fbear his iniquity; ²or ^gif anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt; ³or if he touches ^hhuman uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt; ⁴or if anyone utters with his lips a ⁱrash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that people ^jswear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these; ⁵when he realizes his guilt in any of these and ^kconfesses the sin he has committed, ⁶he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation¹ for the sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.

⁷“But ^lif he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two ^mturtledoves or two pigeons,² one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. ⁸He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering. He shall ⁿwring its head from its neck ⁿbut shall not sever it completely, ⁹and he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while ^othe rest of the blood shall be drained out ^pat the base of the altar; it is a sin offering. ¹⁰Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. ^qAnd the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.

¹¹“But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a ^rtenth of an ephah³ of fine flour for a sin offering. He ^rshall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. ¹²And he shall bring it to ^sthe priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it as its memorial portion and ^tburn this on the altar, on the Lord’s food offerings; it is a sin offering. ¹³Thus ^qthe priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven. And the remainder⁴ shall be for the priest, as in the grain offering.”

Laws for Guilt Offerings

¹⁴The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^15u“If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the Lord, ^vhe shall bring to the Lord as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued⁵ in silver shekels,⁶ according to the ^wshekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering. ¹⁶He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and ^xshall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. ^qAnd the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.

^17y“If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the Lord’s commandments ought not to be done, ^zthough he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity. ^18aHe shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering, and ^qthe priest shall make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven. ¹⁹It is a guilt offering; he has indeed incurred guilt before⁷ the Lord.”

6¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“If anyone sins and ^bcommits a breach of faith against the Lord by ^cdeceiving his neighbor in ^da matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or ^eif he has oppressed his neighbor ³or ^fhas found something lost and lied about it, ^gswearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— ⁴if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore ^ewhat he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found ⁵or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall ^hrestore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt. ⁶And he shall bring to the priest as his compensation to the Lord ⁱa ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering. ^7jAnd the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and thereby become guilty.”

The Priests and the Offerings

⁸² The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁹“Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. ¹⁰And ^kthe priest shall put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them ^lbeside the altar. ¹¹Then ^mhe shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes ⁿoutside the camp to a clean place. ¹²The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it and shall burn on it ^othe fat of the peace offerings. ¹³Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.

¹⁴“And this is the law of ^pthe grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord in front of the altar. ¹⁵And one shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering and its oil and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering and burn this as its ^qmemorial portion on the altar, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. ¹⁶And ^rthe rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten unleavened ^sin a holy place. In the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it. ^17tIt shall not be baked with leaven. ^uI have given it as their portion of my food offerings. ^vIt is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. ¹⁸Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the Lord’s food offerings. Whatever touches them shall become holy.”

¹⁹The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^20w“This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to the Lord on the day when he is anointed: a ^xtenth of an ephah³ of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening. ²¹It shall be made with oil ^yon a griddle. You shall bring it ^zwell mixed, in baked⁴ pieces like a grain offering, and offer it for a pleasing aroma to the Lord. ²²The priest from among Aaron’s sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the Lord as decreed forever. ^aThe whole of it shall be burned. ²³Every grain offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”

²⁴The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁵“Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ^bThis is the law of the sin offering. ^cIn the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord; ^dit is most holy. ^26eThe priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. ^fIn a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting. ²⁷Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place. ²⁸And ^gthe earthenware vessel in which it is boiled ^hshall be broken. But if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that shall be scoured and rinsed in water. ²⁹Every male among the priests may eat of it; ^dit is most holy. ³⁰ⁱBut no sin offering shall be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it shall be burned up with fire.