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.”

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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”