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 ⁹the 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.

¹³“ ‘If^c Israel’s whole assembly did wrong unintentionally and the matter^d was concealed from the assembly’s eyes, and they acted^e against any of^f Yahweh’s commands that should not be violated,^g so that^h they incur guilt, ¹⁴whenⁱ the sin that they have committed^j against that command^k becomes known, the assembly^l shall present a young bull^m as a sin offering, and they shall bring it before the tent of assembly. ¹⁵And the elders of the community shall place their hands on the bull’s head before Yahweh, and heⁿ shall slaughter the bull before Yahweh. ¹⁶Then the anointed priest shall bring some of^o the bull’s blood to the tent of assembly, ¹⁷and the priest shall dip his finger in^p the blood and shall spatter it seven times before Yahweh in front of the curtain. ¹⁸He must put^q some of^r the blood on the altar’s horns before Yahweh in the tent of assembly,^s and all the rest^t of the blood he must pour out on the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the tent of assembly’s entrance. ¹⁹He must remove^u all its fat from it, and he shall turn it into smoke on the altar. ²⁰He shall do^v to the bull just as^w he did to the sin offering’s bull, so he must do to it. The priest^x shall make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.^y ²¹He shall bring^z the rest of^a the bull outside the camp,^b and he shall burn it just as^c he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.

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Footnotes

aOr “And”
bLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
cOr “a soul”
dLiterally “done”
eLiterally “does”
fLiterally “from one from them”; see NET
gLiterally “to the guilt of the people”
hOr “and”
iLiterally “sinned”
jLiterally “a bull, a son of cattle”
kOr “And he shall bring”
lOr “And place”
mOr “And the anointed priest”
nLiterally “from”
oLiterally “from”
pOr “And the priest”
qLiterally “from”
rImplied by the context
sOr “And he must remove”
tOr “entrails”
uOr “entrails”
vOr “and the two”
wOr “And”
xLiterally “and in addition to its lower leg bones”
yOr “and its”
zOr “entrails”
aOr “and he shall carry out”
bLiterally “to from an outside place of the camp”
cOr “And if”
dOr “thing”
eOr “did”
fLiterally “one from all of”
gLiterally “done”
hOr “and”
iOr “and”
jLiterally “sinned”
kThe 3fs pronominal suffix may refer to “one of Yahweh’s commands”—“one” is also fs
lOr “and the assembly”
mLiterally “a bull, a son of cattle”
nOr “someone”; see NET—the 3ms refers to either one of the elders or the priest
oLiterally “from”
pOr “from”
qOr “And he must put”
rLiterally “from”
sLiterally “which is in the tent of assembly”—the reference is to the altar
tIndicated by the context
uOr “And he must remove”
vOr “And he shall do”
wLiterally “as that”
xOr “And the priest”
yLiterally “it shall be forgiven to them”
zOr “And he shall bring out”
aIndicated by the context
bLiterally “to from an outside place of the camp”
cLiterally “as that”