wrong unintentionally”) could be atoned for by making an offering, and the offender could be forgiven, for it was a shegagah, an “error, inadvertent sin, in which one is conscious of one’s act but not of its consequences.”39 It is not premeditated (see Josh 20:3). Defiant sin, however, which is referred to in the text as acting “with a high hand,” beyad ramah, as if one is shaking one’s fist in the face of God, is very different. Defiant sinners were reviling or blaspheming Yahweh and were to be