Leviticus 4:1–12

Laws for Sin Offerings

4Then^a Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the Israelites,^b saying, ‘If a person^c sins by an unintentional wrong from any of Yahweh’s commands that should not be violated,^d and he violates^e any of them^f— ³if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people,^g then,^h concerning the sin that he has committed,ⁱ he shall bring a young bull^j without defect for Yahweh as a sin offering. ⁴He shall bring^k the bull to the tent of assembly’s entrance before Yahweh, place^l his hand on the bull’s head, and slaughter the bull before Yahweh. ⁵The anointed priest^m shall take some ofⁿ the bull’s blood and shall bring it to the tent of assembly, ⁶and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and shall spatter some of^o the blood seven times before Yahweh in front of the sanctuary’s curtain. ⁷The priest^p shall put some of^q the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of assembly, and all the rest^r of the bull’s blood he must pour out on the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the entrance of the tent of assembly.

⁸“ ‘He must remove^s all the fat from the bull of the sin offering: the fat that covers the inner parts^t and all of the fat that is on the inner parts,^{u 9}the two^v kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is at the loins, and the liver’s lobe that he must remove in addition to the kidneys— ¹⁰just as it is removed from the ox of the fellowship offerings’ sacrifice—and the priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar of the burnt offering. ¹¹But^w the bull’s skin and its meat, in addition to its head, its lower leg bones,^x its^y inner parts,^z and its offal— ¹²he shall carry^a all of the bull outside the camp^b to a ceremonially clean place, to the fatty ashes’ dump, and he shall burn it on wood in the fire; it must be burned up on the fatty ashes’ dump.