“If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify,
and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the
matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity; or if
anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean
wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of
unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has
become unclean, and he realizes his guilt; or if he touches human
uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one
becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know
it, and realizes his guilt; or if anyone utters with his lips a
rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that
people swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it,
and he realizes his guilt in any of these; when he realizes his
guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed, he
shall bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has
committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin
offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.
“But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD
as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two
turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other
for a burnt offering. He shall bring them to the priest, who shall
offer first the one for the sin offering. He shall wring its head
from its neck but shall not sever it completely, and he shall
sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the
altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base
of the altar; it is a sin offering. Then he shall offer the second
for a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest shall
make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he
shall be forgiven.
“But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he
shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a
tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no
oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin
offering. And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall
take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this on the
altar, on the LORD's food offerings; it is a sin offering. Thus the
priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has
committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven. And
the remainder shall be for the priest, as in the grain offering.”
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone commits a breach of
faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the
LORD, he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation, a ram without
blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering. He shall also
make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and
shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest
shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering,
and he shall be forgiven.
“If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the LORD's
commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then
realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity. He shall bring to
the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its
equivalent, for a guilt offering, and the priest shall make
atonement for him for the mistake that he made unintentionally, and
he shall be forgiven. It is a guilt offering; he has indeed
incurred guilt before the LORD.”
