Leviticus 5 · Parashat Vayikra

And if a person sin, and hear the voice of adjuration, and is a witness, whether he has seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Or if a person touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcass of an unclean beast, or a carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him, so that he be unclean, and guilty:

or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatever uncleanness it be with which a man shall be defiled, and it be hid from him; and he come to know of it, and be guilty:

or if a person swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.

And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing:

and he shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he has committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the Lord; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it asunder:

and he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.

And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the prescribed order: and the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin which he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an efa of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense upon it: for it is a sin offering.

Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, the memorial part of it, and burn it on the altar, upon the pyres of the Lord: it is a sin offering.

And the priest shall make atonement for him in regard to his sin that he has sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and it shall be the priest’s, like the meal offering.

And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying,

If a person commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then he shall bring for his guilt to the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, by value (two) silver shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.

And he shall make amends for the wrong that he has done in the holy thing, and 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 the guilt offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

And if a person sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he know it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to the valuation, for a guilt offering, to the priest: and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and knew it not, and it shall be forgiven him.

It is a guilt offering: he has certainly trespassed against the Lord.

And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying,

If a person sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie to his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in a loan, or in a thing taken away by violence, or have wronged his neighbour;

or have found that which was lost, and have lied concerning it, and have sworn falsely; in any of all these that a man does, sinning in that:

then it shall be, because he has sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he has deceitfully acquired, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

or all that about which he has sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs, in the day of his trespass offering;

and he shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to the value of a guilt offering, to the priest:

and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord: and it shall be forgiven him for anything of all that he has done wherein to incur guilt.