Leviticus 4
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Speak to the children of Israel,
saying, If a soul shall sin unwillingly before the Lord, in any of the
commandments of the Lord concerning things which he ought not to do, and shall
do some of them; 3 if the anointed
priest sin so as to cause the people to sin, then shall he bring for his sin,
which he has sinned, an unblemished calf of the herd to the Lord for his sin.
4 And he shall bring the calf to the
door of the tabernacle of witness before the Lord, and he shall put his hand
on the head of the calf before the Lord, and shall slay the calf in the
presence of the Lord. 5 And the
anointed priest who has been consecrated having received of the blood of the
calf, shall then bring it into the tabernacle of witness.
6 And the priest shall dip his finger
into the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the Lord, over
against the holy veil. 7 And the
priest shall put of the blood of the calf on the horns of the altar of the
compound incense which is before the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of
witness; and all the blood of the calf shall he pour out by the foot of the
altar of whole-burnt-offerings, which is by the doors of the tabernacle of
witness. 8 And all the fat of the calf
of the sin-offering shall he take off from it; the fat that covers the
inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,
9 and the two kidneys, and the fat
that is upon them, that which is on the thighs, and the caul that is on the
liver with the kidneys, them shall he take away,
10 as he takes it away from the calf
of the sacrifice of peace-offering, so shall the priest offer it on the altar
of burnt-offering. 11 And
they shall take the skin of the calf, and all his
flesh with the head and the extremities and the belly and the dung,
12 and they shall carry out the whole
calf out of the camp into a clean place, where they pour out the ashes, and
they shall consume it there on wood with fire: it shall be burnt on the ashes
poured out.
13 And if the whole congregation of
Israel trespass ignorantly, and a thing should escape the notice of the
congregation, and they should do one thing forbidden of any of the commands of
the Lord, which ought not to be done, and should transgress:
14 and the sin wherein they have
sinned should become known to them, then shall the congregation bring an
unblemished calf of the herd for a sin-offering, and they shall bring it to
the doors of the tabernacle of witness.
15 And the elders of the congregation
shall lay their hands on the head of the calf before the Lord, and they shall
slay the calf before the Lord. 16 And
the anointed priest shall bring in of the blood of the calf into the
tabernacle of witness. 17 And the
priest shall dip his finger into some of the blood of the calf, and shall
sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, in front of the veil of the
sanctuary. 18 And the priest shall
put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of the incense of composition,
which is before the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of witness; and he shall
pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of whole-burnt-offerings,
which is by the door of the tabernacle of witness.
19 And he shall take away all the fat
from it, and shall offer it up on the altar.
20 And he shall do to the calf as he
did to the calf of the sin-offering, so shall it be done; and the priest shall
make atonement for them, and the trespass shall be forgiven them.
21 And they shall carry forth the
calf whole without the camp, and they shall burn the calf as they burnt the
former calf: it is the sin-offering of the congregation.
22 And if a ruler sin, and break one
of all the commands of the Lord his God,
doing the thing which ought not to be done,
unwillingly, and shall sin and trespass,
23 and his trespass wherein he has
sinned, be known to him,—then shall he offer for his gift a kid of the goats,
a male without blemish. 24 And he
shall lay his hand on the head of the kid, and they shall kill it in the place
where they kill the victims for whole-burnt-offerings
before the Lord; it is a sin-offering.
25 And the priest shall put some of
the blood of the sin-offering with his finger on the horns of the altar of
whole-burnt-offering; and he shall pour out all its blood by the bottom of the
altar of whole-burnt-offerings.
26 And he shall offer up all his fat
on the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace-offering; and the priest
shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
27 And if a soul of the people of the
land should sin unwillingly, in doing a thing
contrary to any of the commandments of the Lord,
which ought not to be done, and shall transgress,
28 and his sin should be known to
him, wherein he has sinned, then shall he bring a kid of the goats, a female
without blemish shall he bring for his sin, which he has sinned.
29 And he shall lay his hand on the
head of his sin-offering, and they shall slay the kid of the sin-offering in
the place where they slay the
victims for whole-burnt-offerings.
30 And the priest shall take of its
blood with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of the altar of
whole-burnt-offerings; and all its blood he shall pour forth by the foot of
the altar. 31 And he shall take away
all the fat, as the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace-offering,
and the priest shall offer it on the altar for a smell of sweet savour to the
Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and
his sin shall be forgiven him.
32 And if he should offer a lamb for
his sin-offering, he shall offer it a female without blemish.
33 And he shall lay his hand on the
head of the sin-offering, and they shall kill it in the place where they kill
the victims for whole-burnt-offerings.
34 And the priest shall take of the
blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of
the altar of whole-burnt-offerings, and he shall pour out all its blood by the
bottom of the altar of whole-burnt-offering.
35 And he shall take away all his
fat, as the fat of the lamb of the sacrifice of peace-offering is taken away,
and the priest shall put it on the altar for a whole-burnt-offering to the
Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he sinned,
and it shall be forgiven him.