Leviticus 5:14–6:7

Laws for Guilt Offerings

14 Thenw Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 15 “When a personx ⌊displays infidelity⌋y and he sins in an unintentional wrong ⌊in any of⌋z Yahweh’s holy things, thena he shall bring his guilt offering tob Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flockc as a guilt offering by your valuation in silver shekelsd according to the sanctuary shekel. 16 And he shall make restitution for what he sinned ⌊because of⌋e a holy thing and shall add one-fifth of ⌊its value⌋f onto it and shall give it to the priest. The priestg shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

17 “Ifh a personi when he sins ⌊violates⌋j one from all of Yahweh’s commands that should not ⌊be violated⌋,k butl he did not know, thenm he is guilty and he shall bear his guilt. 18 He shall bringn to the priest a ram without defect from the flocko as a guilt offering by your valuation, and the priest shall make atonement for him because of his unintentional wrong (althoughp he himself did not know), and he will be forgiven. 19 It is a guilt offering; he certainly was guilty before Yahweh.”

Additional Laws for Burnt Offerings

6 a Thenb Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “When a personc ⌊displays infidelity⌋d against Yahweh and he deceives his fellow citizen regardinge something entrusted or ⌊a pledge⌋f or stealing or he exploits his fellow citizen, 3 or he finds lost property and lies about it and swears ⌊falsely⌋g ⌊in regard to⌋h any one of these things by which ⌊a person⌋i might commit sin, 4 ⌊and when⌋j he sins and is guilty, thenk he shall bring back ⌊the things he had stolen⌋l or ⌊what he had extorted⌋m or ⌊something with which he had been entrusted⌋n or the lost property that he had found, 5 or ⌊regarding⌋o anything about which he has sworn ⌊falsely⌋,p thenq he shall repay it ⌊according to⌋r its value and shall add one-fifth of its value to it—he must give it ⌊to whom it belongs⌋s on the day of his guilt offering. 6 And he must bring as his guilt offering to Yahweh a ram without defect from the flockt by your valuationu as a guilt offering to the priest, 7 and the priest shall make atonement for him ⌊before⌋v Yahweh, and he shall be forgiven ⌊anything⌋w from all that he might do ⌊by which he might incur guilt⌋.”x

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w	Or “And”
x	Or “a soul”
y	Literally “acts unfaithfully infidelity” or “is unfaithful in unfaithfulness”
z	Literally “from”
a	Or “and”
b	Or “for”
c	The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
d	Or “convertible into silver shekels” (NET, NRSV, TNK), “of the proper value in silver” (NIV; cp. ESV “valued in silver shekels,” CSB), or “or you may buy one of equal value with silver” (NLT)
e	Literally “from” (see HALOT 598)
f	Literally “it”
g	Or “And the priest”
h	Or “And if”
i	Or “a soul”
j	Literally “and she/it does”
k	Literally “they are to be done”
l	Or “and”
m	Or “and”
n	Or “And he shall bring”
o	The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
p	Or “and”
a	Leviticus 6:1–30 in the English Bible is 5:20–6:23 in the Hebrew Bible
b	Or “And”
c	Or “a soul”
d	Literally “acts unfaithfully infidelity” or “is unfaithful in unfaithfulness”
e	Literally “in”
f	Literally “a pledge of a hand”
g	Literally “in accordance with deception”
h	Literally “on” or “upon”
i	Literally “the man”
j	Literally “and it will be when”
k	Or “and”
l	Literally “the robbed things that he had stolen”
m	Literally “the extortion that he had extorted”
n	Literally “something entrusted that had been entrusted to him”
o	Literally “from”
p	Literally “in accordance with deception”
q	Or “and”
r	Literally “in”
s	Literally “to whom it is to him”
t	The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
u	See 5:15 and 18
v	Literally “to the faces of”
w	Literally “one”
x	Literally “which he might do for incurring guilt by it”