Leviticus 5
1 And if a soul sin, and hear the
voice of swearing, and he is a witness or has seen or been conscious, if he do
not report it, he shall bear his iniquity.
2 That soul which shall touch any
unclean thing, or carcase, or that which is unclean
being taken of beasts, or the dead bodies of abominable
reptiles which are unclean, or carcases of unclean
cattle, 3 or should touch the
uncleanness of a man, of whatever kind, which he may touch and be defiled by,
and it should have escaped him, but afterwards he should know,—then he shall
have transgressed. 4 That unrighteous
soul, which determines with his lips to do evil or to do good according to
whatsoever a man may determine with an oath, and it shall have escaped his
notice, and he shall afterwards know
it, and so he should sin in
some one of these things:— 5 then
shall he declare his sin in the things wherein he has sinned by that sin.
6 And he shall bring for his
transgressions against the Lord, for his sin which he has sinned, a ewe lamb
of the flock, or a kid of the goats, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall
make an atonement for him for his sin which he has sinned, and his sin shall
be forgiven him. 7 And if he cannot
afford a sheep, he shall bring for his sin which he has sinned, two
turtle-doves or two young pigeons to the Lord; one for a sin-offering, and the
other for a burnt-offering. 8 And he
shall bring them to the priest, and the priest shall bring the sin-offering
first; and the priest shall pinch off the head from the neck, and shall not
divide the body. 9 And he shall
sprinkle of the blood of the sin-offering on the side of the altar, but the
rest of the blood he shall drop at the foot of the altar, for it is a
sin-offering. 10 And he shall make
the second a whole-burnt-offering, as it is fit; and the priest shall make
atonement for his sin which he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
11 And if he cannot afford a pair of
turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then shall he bring as his gift for his
sin, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering; he shall not
pour oil upon it, nor shall he put frankincense upon it, because it is a
sin-offering. 12 And he shall bring
it to the priest; and the priest having taken a handful of it, shall lay the
memorial of it on the altar of whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord; it is a
sin-offering. 13 And the priest shall
make atonement for him for his sin, which he has sinned in one of these
things, and it shall be forgiven him; and that which is left shall be the
priest's, as an offering of fine flour.
14 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying, 15 The soul which shall be
really unconscious, and shall sin unwillingly in any of the holy things of the
Lord, shall even bring to the Lord for his transgression, a ram of the flock
without blemish, valued according to shekels of silver according to the shekel
of the sanctuary, for his transgression wherein he
transgressed. 16 And he shall make
compensation for that wherein he has sinned in the holy things; and he shall
add the fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make
atonement for him with the ram of transgression, and
his sin shall be forgiven him.
17 And the soul which shall sin, and
do one thing against any of the commandments of the
Lord, which it is not right to do, and has not known it, and shall have
transgressed, and shall have contracted guilt,
18 he shall even bring a ram without
blemish from the flock, valued at a price of silver
for his transgression to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for
his trespass of ignorance, wherein he ignorantly trespassed, and he knew it
not; and it shall be forgiven him.
19 For he has surely been guilty of
transgression before the Lord.
20 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying, 21 The soul which shall have
sinned, and wilfully overlooked the commandments of the Lord, and shall have
dealt falsely in the affairs of his neighbour in the matter of a deposit, or
concerning fellowship, or concerning plunder, or has in anything wronged his
neighbour, 22 or has found that which
was lost, and shall have lied concerning it, and shall have sworn unjustly
concerning any one of all the things, whatsoever a
man may do, so as to sin hereby;
23 it shall come to pass, whensoever
he shall have sinned, and transgressed, that he shall restore the plunder
which he has seized, or redress the injury which he
has committed, or restore the deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost
article which he has found 24 of any
kind, about which he swore unjustly, he shall even restore it in full; and he
shall add to it a fifth part besides; he shall restore it to him whose it is
in the day in which he happens to be convicted.
25 And he shall bring to the Lord for
his trespass, a ram of the flock, without blemish, of value to the amount of
the thing in which he trespassed.
26 And the priest shall make
atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven for any one of all
the things which he did and trespassed in it.