Leviticus 5
Additional Sin Offering Regulations
5:1 “‘When a person sins1 in that he hears a public curse against one who fails to testify2 and he is a witness (he either saw or knew what had happened3) and he does not make it known,4 then he will bear his punishment for iniquity.5
5:2 Or when there is6 a person who touches anything ceremonially7 unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it,8 but he himself has become unclean and is guilty;9
5:3 or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean,10 even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;
5:4 or when a person swears an oath, speaking thoughtlessly11 with his lips, whether to do evil or to do good, with regard to anything which the individual might speak thoughtlessly in an oath, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty with regard to one of these oaths12 –
5:5 when an individual becomes guilty with regard to one of these things13 he must confess how he has sinned,14
5:6 and he must bring his penalty for guilt15 to the
5:7 “‘If he cannot afford an animal from the flock,18 he must bring his penalty for guilt for his sin that he has committed,19 two turtledoves or two young pigeons,20 to the
5:11 “‘If he cannot afford31 two turtledoves or two young pigeons,32 he must bring as his offering for his sin which he has committed33 a tenth of an ephah34 of choice wheat flour35 for a sin offering. He must not place olive oil on it and he must not put frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.
5:12 He must bring it to the priest and the priest must scoop out from it a handful as its memorial portion36 and offer it up in smoke on the altar on top of the other gifts of the
Guilt Offering Regulations: Known Trespass
5:14 Then the
Unknown trespass
5:17 “If a person sins and violates any of the Lord’s commandments which must not be violated52 (although he did not know it at the time,53 but later realizes he is guilty), then he will bear his punishment for iniquity54
5:18 and must bring a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver shekels,55 for a guilt offering to the priest. So the priest will make atonement56 on his behalf for his error which he committed57 (although he himself had not known it) and he will be forgiven.58
5:19 It is a guilt offering; he was surely guilty before the