Leviticus 4:1–21

Laws for Sin Offerings

4And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, ^uIf anyone sins unintentionally¹ in any of the Lord’s commandments ^vabout things not to be done, and does any one of them, ³if it is the anointed priest who ^wsins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed ^xa bull from the herd without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering. ⁴He shall bring the bull to the ^yentrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord and lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before the Lord. ⁵And the anointed priest ^zshall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting, ⁶and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and ^zsprinkle part of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil of the sanctuary. ⁷And the priest ^ashall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the Lord that is in the tent of meeting, and ^ball the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. ⁸And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall remove from it, ^cthe fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails ^9dand the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys ¹⁰(just as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offerings); and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. ¹¹But ^ethe skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung— ¹²all the rest of the bull—he shall carry ^foutside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall ^gburn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up.

^13h“If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally² and ⁱthe thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the Lord’s commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt,^{3 14j}when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting. ¹⁵And the elders of the congregation ^kshall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the Lord, and the bull shall be killed before the Lord. ¹⁶Then ^lthe anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting, ¹⁷and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord in front of the veil. ¹⁸And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is in the tent of meeting before the Lord, and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. ¹⁹And all its fat he shall take from it and burn on the altar. ²⁰Thus shall he do with the bull. As he did ^mwith the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. ⁿAnd the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven. ²¹And he shall carry the bull ^foutside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.