Leviticus 4

¹ The LORD spoke to Moses:

² “Speak to the Israelites: ‘When anyone sins unintentionally by doing something forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands, and commits one of these offenses:

³ If the anointed priest sins and brings guilt on the people, he must offer the LORD a flawless young bull as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

⁴ He must bring the bull to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, before the LORD, lay his hand on the bull’s head, and slaughter it before the LORD.

⁵ The anointed priest must take some of the bull’s blood and bring it into the Tent of Meeting.

⁶ He must dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD, in front of the sanctuary curtain.

⁷ The priest must put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense, which is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting. He must pour out all the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar for burnt offerings, which is at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

⁸ He must remove all the fat from the bull for the sin offering: the fat covering the entrails and all the fat on the entrails,

⁹ the two kidneys, the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he must remove along with the kidneys.

¹⁰ He must remove these just as he removes them from the ox of the fellowship offering, and the priest must burn them on the altar for burnt offerings.

¹¹ But the bull’s hide and all its flesh, along with its head and legs, its entrails and dung—

¹² the whole bull—he must take outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are dumped, and burn it on a wood fire. It must be burned where the ashes are dumped.’”

¹³ “‘If the whole community of Israel sins unintentionally, and the matter is hidden from the assembly’s sight, and they do something forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands, they are guilty.

¹⁴ When the sin they committed becomes known, the assembly must offer a young bull as a sin offering and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.

¹⁵ The elders of the community must lay their hands on the bull’s head before the LORD, and the bull must be slaughtered before the LORD.

¹⁶ The anointed priest must bring some of the bull’s blood into the Tent of Meeting.

¹⁷ He must dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, in front of the curtain.

¹⁸ He must put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting, and pour out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar for burnt offerings, which is at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

¹⁹ He must remove all its fat and burn it on the altar.

²⁰ He must do with this bull just as he did with the bull for the sin offering; he must do the same with it. The priest will make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.

²¹ He must take the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

²² When a leader sins unintentionally by doing something forbidden in any of the commands of the LORD his God, he is guilty.

²³ When the sin he committed is made known to him, he must bring as his offering a flawless male goat.’”

²⁴ “‘He must lay his hand on the goat’s head and slaughter it before the LORD, where the burnt offering is slaughtered. It is a sin offering.

²⁵ The priest must take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. He must pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar for burnt offerings.

²⁶ He must burn all its fat on the altar, just as he does with the fat of the fellowship offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for his sin, and he will be forgiven.

²⁷ If anyone among the people of the land sins unintentionally by doing something forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands, that person is guilty.

²⁸ When the sin that person committed is made known, he must bring as his offering a flawless female goat for the sin he committed.

²⁹ He must lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.

³⁰ The priest must take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. He must pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.

³¹ He must remove all its fat, just as the fat is removed from the fellowship offering, and the priest must burn it on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for that person, and that person will be forgiven.

³² If that person brings a lamb as a sin offering, he must bring a flawless female.

³³ He must lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it as a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

³⁴ The priest must take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. He must pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.

³⁵ He must remove all its fat, just as the fat is removed from the lamb of the fellowship offering, and the priest must burn it on the altar, on top of the offerings made by fire to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for that person for the sin he committed, and that person will be forgiven.’”

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