^9:15Then he presented the people’s offering. He took the sin offering male goat which was for the people, slaughtered it, and performed a decontamination rite with it¹⁸ like the first one.¹⁹

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Footnotes

18 The expression “and performed a decontamination rite [with] it” reads literally in the , “and decontaminated [with] it.” The verb is the Piel of חטא (kht’, Qal = “to sin”), which means “to decontaminate, purify” (i.e., “to de-sin”; see the note on ).
19 The phrase “like the first one” at the end of the verse refers back to the sin offering for the priests described in vv. 8–11 above. The blood of the sin offering of the common people was applied to the burnt offering altar just like that of the priests.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Then he presented the people’s offering and took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people and killed it and offered it as a sin offering, like the first one.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Aaron then brought the offering that was for the people. He took the goat for the people’s sin offering and slaughtered it and offered it for a sin offering as he did with the first one.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Aaron presented the people’s offering. He took the male goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and made a sin offering with it as he did before.

NLTNew Living Translation

Next Aaron presented the offerings of the people. He slaughtered the people’s goat and presented it as an offering for their sin, just as he had first done with the offering for his own sin.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Then he presented the people’s offering, and he took the goat of the sin offering, which was for the people, and he slaughtered it and offered it as a sin offering like the first one.

KJV 1900King James Version

And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.

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