Leviticus 5

¹And when a person sins: if he hears a public adjuration and he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know — if he does not declare it, he shall bear his iniquity.

²Or if a person touches any unclean thing — whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean swarming creature — and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, he shall be guilty.

³Or if he touches any human uncleanness — whatever his uncleanness is by which he becomes unclean — and it is hidden from him, and he comes to know, he shall be guilty.

⁴Or if a person swears rashly with his lips to do harm or to do good — for anything that a man swears rashly in an oath — and it is hidden from him, and he comes to know, he shall be guilty in one of these.

⁵And it shall be when he becomes guilty in one of these, he shall confess the thing in which he has sinned.

⁶And he shall bring his penalty to the LORD for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a ewe lamb or a female goat, as a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him from his sin.

⁷And if his means do not reach enough for a flock animal, he shall bring his penalty for his sin — two turtledoves or two young pigeons — to the LORD: one as a sin offering and one as a burnt offering.

⁸And he shall bring them to the priest, and he shall present the one that is for the sin-offering first, and he shall nip its head at the back of its neck, but he shall not sever it.

⁹And he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the wall of the altar, and the remainder of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar — it is a sin offering.

¹⁰And the second he shall make into a burnt offering according to the regulation. And the priest shall make atonement for him from his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

¹¹But if his hand cannot reach two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering, that which he sinned, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering; he shall not put oil on it, and he shall not put frankincense on it, for it is a sin-offering.

¹²And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall scoop from it a full handful — its memorial portion — and turn it to smoke on the altar upon the food offerings of YHWH; it is a sin-offering.

¹³And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin that he sinned — from one of these — and he shall be forgiven; and it shall belong to the priest, like the grain offering.

¹⁴And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

¹⁵If any person commits a trespass and sins unintentionally from the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring his penalty to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, valued in silver shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary, as a guilt offering.

¹⁶And what he sinned from the holy thing he shall make restitution for, and he shall add its fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the guilt offering ram, and he shall be forgiven.

¹⁷And if any person sins and does one of all the commandments of the LORD that must not be done, and he does not know — he shall be guilty and shall bear his iniquity.

¹⁸And he shall bring an unblemished ram from the flock, at your valuation, as a guilt offering to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his inadvertent error that he committed unintentionally, and he did not know, and he shall be forgiven.

¹⁹It is a guilt offering — he has indeed incurred guilt before the LORD.