5“ ‘When a person^a sins in that^b he hears the utterance of a curse and he is a witness or he sees or he knows, if he does not make it known, then^c he shall bear his guilt. ²Or if a person^d touches anything unclean, whether^e an unclean wild^f animal’s dead body or an unclean domestic animal’s dead body or an unclean swarmer’s dead body, but^g he is unaware of it,^h he is unclean and he is guilty. ³Or when he touches human uncleanness, namelyⁱ any uncleanness of his by which he might become unclean, but^j he is unaware of it,^k and he himself finds out, then^l he will be guilty. ⁴Or when a person^m swears, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips, to do evil or to do good with regard toⁿ anything that the person in a sworn oath speaks thoughtlessly, but^o he is unaware of it,^p and he finds out, he will be guilty in any of^q these. ⁵When he becomes guilty in any of^r these, he shall confess^s what he has sinned regarding^t it, ⁶and he shall bring his guilt offering to^u Yahweh for his sin that he has committed:^v a female from the flock,^w a ewe-lamb or a she-goat,^x as a sin offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for^y his sin.

⁷“ ‘If^z he cannot afford a sheep,^a he shall bring as his guilt offering for what he sinned two turtledoves or two young doves^b for Yahweh, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering. ⁸He shall bring^c them to the priest, and he shall present that which is for the sin offering first, and the priest^d shall wring its head off at the back of its neck,^e but^f he must not sever it, ⁹and he shall spatter some of^g the sin offering’s blood on the altar’s side, and the leftover blood must be drained out on the altar’s base; it is a sin offering. ¹⁰The second^h bird he must prepare as a burnt offering according to the regulation, and the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin that he has committed,ⁱ and he shall be forgiven.

¹¹“ ‘But^j if he cannot afford^k two turtledoves or two young doves,^l then,^m because he has sinned, he shall bring as his offering a tenth of anⁿ ephah of finely milled flour as a sin offering. He must not put^o oil on it, nor should he put frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering. ¹²He shall bring^p it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it^q for its token portion, and he shall turn it to smoke on the altar in addition to^r the offerings made by fire to Yahweh; it is a sin offering. ¹³Thus^s the priest shall make atonement for him because of the sin that he has committed^t in any of these,^u and he shall be forgiven. It shall be^v for the priest, like the grain offering.’ ”

Laws for Guilt Offerings

¹⁴Then^w Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁵“When a person^x displays infidelity^y and he sins in an unintentional wrong in any of^z Yahweh’s holy things, then^a he shall bring his guilt offering to^b Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock^c as a guilt offering by your valuation in silver shekels^d according to the sanctuary shekel. ¹⁶And 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 priest^g shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

¹⁷“If^h a personⁱ when he sins violates^j one from all of Yahweh’s commands that should not be violated,^k but^l he did not know, then^m he is guilty and he shall bear his guilt. ¹⁸He shall bringⁿ to the priest a ram without defect from the flock^o as a guilt offering by your valuation, and the priest shall make atonement for him because of his unintentional wrong (although^p he himself did not know), and he will be forgiven. ¹⁹It is a guilt offering; he certainly was guilty before Yahweh.”

Additional Laws for Burnt Offerings

6^a Then^b Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²“When a person^c displays infidelity^d against Yahweh and he deceives his fellow citizen regarding^e something entrusted or a pledge^f or stealing or he exploits his fellow citizen, ³or he finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely^g in regard to^h any one of these things by which a personⁱ might commit sin, ⁴and when^j he sins and is guilty, then^k he shall bring back the things he had stolen^l or what he had extorted^m or something with which he had been entrustedⁿ or the lost property that he had found, ⁵or regarding^o anything about which he has sworn falsely,^p then^q 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. ⁶And he must bring as his guilt offering to Yahweh a ram without defect from the flock^t by your valuation^u as a guilt offering to the priest, ⁷and 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

⁸Then^y Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ⁹“Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the regulation of the burnt offering: The burnt offering must remain on the hearth^z on the altar all night until the morning, and the altar’s fire must be kept burning on it. ¹⁰And the priest shall put on his linen robe, and he must put his linen undergarments on his body, and he shall take away the fatty ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall place them^a beside the altar. ¹¹And he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and he shall bring out the fatty ashes outside the camp^b to a ceremonially clean place, ¹²but^c the fire on the altar must be kept burning on it; it must not be quenched. And the priest must burn wood every morning^d on it,^e and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it,^f and he shall turn into smoke the fat portions of the fellowship offerings on it.^g ¹³A perpetual fire must be kept burning on the altar; it must not be quenched.

Additional Laws for Grain Offerings

¹⁴“ ‘And this is the regulation of the grain offering. Aaron’s sons shall present it before^h Yahweh in front ofⁱ the altar, ¹⁵and he^j in his fist shall take away from it some of^k the grain offering’s finely milled flour, and some of^l its oil and all of the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and he shall turn into smoke its token portion on the altar as an appeasing fragrance to Yahweh. ¹⁶And Aaron and his sons must eat the remainder of it; they must eat it as unleavened bread in a holy place—in the tent of assembly’s courtyard they must eat it. ¹⁷It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their share from my offerings made by fire. It is a most holy thing,^m like the sin offering and like the guilt offering. ¹⁸Every male among Aaron’s sons may eat it as a lasting rule among your generations from the offerings made by fire belonging toⁿ Yahweh. Anything that^o touches them will become holy.’ ”

¹⁹Then^p Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁰“This is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they shall present to Yahweh on the day of his being anointed: a tenth of an^q ephah of finely milled flour as a perpetual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. ²¹It must be made^r in^s oil on a flat baking pan; you^t must bring it well-mixed; you must present pieces of a grain offering’s baked goods^u as an appeasing fragrance to Yahweh. ²²And the anointed priest taking his place from among his sons must do it. As a lasting rule, it must be turned into smoke totally for Yahweh. ²³And every grain offering of a priest must be a whole burnt offering; it must not be eaten.”

Additional Laws for Sin Offerings

²⁴Then^v Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁵“Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the regulation of the sin offering: In the place where the sin offering is slaughtered, the sin offering must be slaughtered before^w Yahweh; it is a most holy thing.^x ²⁶The priest who offers the sin offering^y must eat it in a holy place—in the tent of assembly’s courtyard. ²⁷Anything that^z touches its flesh will become holy, and when some of^a its blood spatters on a^b garment, what was spattered on it you^c shall wash in a holy place. ²⁸And a clay vessel in which it was boiled must be broken, but^d if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then^e it shall be thoroughly scoured and rinsed with water. ²⁹Any male among the priests may eat it; it is a most holy thing.^f ³⁰But^g any sin offering from which some of^h its blood is brought to the tent of assembly to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten; it must be burned in the fire.’ ”

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Footnotes

aOr “a soul”
bOr “and”
cOr “and”
dOr “a soul”
eLiterally “or”
fImplied by the following phrase specifying domestic animals
gOr “and”
hLiterally “it is concealed from him”
iLiterally “for” or “to” (see HALOT 510)
jOr “and”
kLiterally “it is concealed from him”
lOr “and”
mOr “a soul”
nLiterally “for” or “to” (see HALOT 510)
oOr “and”
pLiterally “it is concealed from him”
qLiterally “for one of”
rLiterally “for one of”
sOr “and he shall confess”
tLiterally “upon” or “against”
uOr “for”
vLiterally “sinned”
wThe Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
xLiterally “a she-goat of goats”
yHebrew “from”
zOr “And if”
aLiterally “his hand does not touch enough of small livestock”
bLiterally “sons of dove” or “children of dove”
cOr “And he shall bring”
dRequired by the previous action (see NET)
eLiterally “from opposite its neck”
fOr “and”
gLiterally “from”
hOr “And the second”
iLiterally “sinned”
jOr “And”
kLiterally “his hand cannot produce for”
lLiterally “sons of dove” or “children of dove”
mOr “and”
nHebrew “the”
oOr “And he must not put”
pOr “And he shall bring”
qLiterally “shall scoop up from it the fullness of his handful”
rLiterally “on” or “upon”
sOr “And”
tLiterally “sinned”
uLiterally “from one from these”
vOr “And it shall be”
wOr “And”
xOr “a soul”
yLiterally “acts unfaithfully infidelity” or “is unfaithful in unfaithfulness”
zLiterally “from”
aOr “and”
bOr “for”
cThe Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
dOr “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)
eLiterally “from” (see HALOT 598)
fLiterally “it”
gOr “And the priest”
hOr “And if”
iOr “a soul”
jLiterally “and she/it does”
kLiterally “they are to be done”
lOr “and”
mOr “and”
nOr “And he shall bring”
oThe Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
pOr “and”
a Leviticus 6:1–30 in the English Bible is 5:20–6:23 in the Hebrew Bible
bOr “And”
cOr “a soul”
dLiterally “acts unfaithfully infidelity” or “is unfaithful in unfaithfulness”
eLiterally “in”
fLiterally “a pledge of a hand”
gLiterally “in accordance with deception”
hLiterally “on” or “upon”
iLiterally “the man”
jLiterally “and it will be when”
kOr “and”
lLiterally “the robbed things that he had stolen”
mLiterally “the extortion that he had extorted”
nLiterally “something entrusted that had been entrusted to him”
oLiterally “from”
pLiterally “in accordance with deception”
qOr “and”
rLiterally “in”
sLiterally “to whom it is to him”
tThe Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
uSee 5:15 and 18
vLiterally “to the faces of”
wLiterally “one”
xLiterally “which he might do for incurring guilt by it”
yOr “And”
zLiterally “It shall be the burnt offering on a hearth”
aHebrew “him/it”—plural required by the English “fatty ashes”
bLiterally “to from an outside place of the camp”
cOr “and”
dLiterally “in the morning in the morning”
eAntecedent for this 3fs suffix is “fire” (“altar” is ms)
fAntecedent for this 3fs suffix is “fire” (“altar” is ms)
gAntecedent for this 3fs suffix is “fire” (“altar” is ms)
hLiterally “to the faces of”
iLiterally “to the faces of”
jThat is, the priest; understood by context and 3ms verb
kLiterally “from”
lLiterally “from”
mLiterally “a holiness of holinesses”
nLiterally “of”
oOr “Everyone who”
pOr “And”
qHebrew “the”
rOr “prepared”
sOr “with”
tSingular masculine
uOr “broken bits” (JPS, NET, NIV)
vOr “And”
wLiterally “to the faces of”
xLiterally “a holiness of holinesses”
yLiterally “one who offers it a sin offering”
zOr “Everyone who”
aLiterally “from”
bHebrew “the”
cSingular masculine
dOr “and”
eOr “and”
fLiterally “a holiness of holinesses”
gOr “And”
hLiterally “from”