Leviticus 5

¹ “If anyone sins by refusing to testify when called to give evidence under oath—because they saw or learned of the matter—they must bear the consequences of their guilt.

² Or if anyone touches anything unclean—the carcass of an unclean wild animal, an unclean domestic animal, or an unclean creature that moves along the ground—and it escapes their notice, they are unclean and guilty.

³ Or if anyone touches human uncleanness, whatever kind of uncleanness makes a person unclean, and it escapes their notice but they later realize it, they are guilty.

⁴ Or if anyone rashly swears with their lips to do evil or to do good—whatever someone might rashly swear to do—and it escapes their notice but they later realize it, they are guilty in any of these cases.

⁵ When they are guilty in any of these cases, they must confess the sin they have committed.

⁶ They must bring to the LORD their guilt offering for the sin they have committed: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, as a sin offering. The priest will make atonement for them for their sin.

⁷ If they cannot afford a sheep, they must bring to the LORD, for the sin they have committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons as their guilt offering: one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

⁸ They must bring them to the priest, who will offer the one for the sin offering first. He will wring off its head at the neck without severing it.

⁹ He will sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood will be squeezed out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.

¹⁰ He will prepare the second bird as a burnt offering according to the prescribed procedure. The priest will make atonement for them for the sin they committed, and they will be forgiven.

¹¹ If they cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, they must bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering for the sin they committed. They must not put oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.

¹² They must bring the offering to the priest, and the priest will take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn it on the altar, on top of the offerings made by fire to the LORD. It is a sin offering.

¹³ In this way the priest will make atonement for them for the sin they committed in any of these cases, and they will be forgiven. The rest will belong to the priest, as with the grain offering.”

¹⁴ The LORD spoke to Moses:

¹⁵ “If anyone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against the LORD’s sacred things, they must bring to the LORD their guilt offering: a flawless ram from the flock, valued by you in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel.

¹⁶ They must repay what they took from the sacred things, add a fifth of its value, and give it to the priest. The priest will make atonement for them with the ram of the guilt offering, and they will be forgiven.

¹⁷ If anyone sins by doing something forbidden by any of the LORD’s commandments, even without knowing it, they are guilty and must bear the consequences of their guilt.

¹⁸ They must bring to the priest a flawless ram from the flock, valued by you as a guilt offering. The priest will make atonement for them for the mistake they made unknowingly, and they will be forgiven.

¹⁹ It is a guilt offering; they have certainly incurred guilt before the LORD.”

²⁰ The LORD spoke to Moses:

²¹ “If anyone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving their neighbor about something entrusted to them, a pledge, or something stolen, or by exploiting their neighbor,

²² or by finding something lost and denying it, or by swearing falsely about anything a person might do and sin by doing it—

²³ when they sin and become guilty, they must return what they stole, or what they took by exploitation, or what was entrusted to them, or what they found after it was lost.

²⁴ Or they must return anything about which they swore falsely. They must repay the full amount, add a fifth of its value, and give it to the owner on the day they acknowledge their guilt.

²⁵ They must bring their guilt offering to the LORD, to the priest: a flawless ram from the flock, valued by you as a guilt offering.

²⁶ The priest will make atonement for them before the LORD, and they will be forgiven for anything they did that made them guilty.”

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