Leviticus 5Book 3 of 66 · 19 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. If a person sins in hearing a public oath to testify and is a witness, whether he has seen or known of the matter—if he does not tell it, he bears guilt.
  2. Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean swarming things, though it is hidden from him and he is unaware of it, he shall be unclean and guilty.
  3. Or if he touches human uncleanness—whatever sort of uncleanness with which a man may be defiled, and he is unaware of it—when he comes to know it and realizes it, then he shall be guilty.
  4. Or if a person swears, speaking rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man may pronounce by an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he comes to know it, then he shall be guilty in any of these matters.
  5. And it shall be, when he realizes his guilt in any of these matters, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing.
  6. And he shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat as a sin offering, and the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin.
  7. If he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD as his penalty for the sin which he has committed two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.
  8. He shall bring them to the priest, who shall present first the one for the sin offering and wring its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.
  9. Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.
  10. And he shall prepare the second as a burnt offering according to the prescribed manner, and the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
  11. But if his means are not sufficient to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering, and he shall put no oil on it nor any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
  12. Then he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar on top of the LORD's food offerings; it is a sin offering.
  13. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has committed in any of these matters, and it shall be forgiven him, and the remainder shall belong to the priest as a grain offering.
  14. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
  15. If a person commits a trespass and sins unintentionally in regard to the holy things of the LORD, then he shall bring to the LORD as his guilt offering a ram without blemish from the flock, with your valuation in shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
  16. He shall make restitution for the harm that he has done in regard to the holy thing, and shall add one-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 it shall be forgiven him.
  17. If a person sins and commits any of these things which are forbidden by the commandments of the LORD, though he was unaware, he is still guilty and shall bear his punishment.
  18. He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your valuation, as a guilt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him regarding the error he committed unintentionally and did not know it, and it shall be forgiven him.
  19. It is a guilt offering; he has certainly incurred guilt before the LORD.