Leviticus 5

¹If anyone sins in that he hears a adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness , whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak , he shall bear his iniquity ;

²or if anyone touches an unclean thing , whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things , and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean , and he realizes his guilt ;

³or if he touches human uncleanness , of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean , and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt ;

⁴or if anyone utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good , any sort of rash oath that people swear , and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these;

⁵when he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed ,

⁶he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation for the sin that he has committed , a female from the flock , a lamb or a goat , for a sin offering . And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin .

⁷But if he cannot afford a lamb , then he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two pigeons , one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering .

⁸He shall bring them to the priest , who shall offer first the the one for the sin offering . He shall wring its head from its neck but shall not sever it completely ,

⁹and he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar , while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar ; it is a sin offering .

¹⁰Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule . And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed , and he shall be forgiven .

¹¹But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons , then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering . He shall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering .

¹²And he shall bring it to the priest , and the priest shall take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this on the altar , on the Lord ’s food offerings ; it is a sin offering .

¹³Thus the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven . And the remainder shall be for the priest , as in the grain offering .

¹⁴The Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

¹⁵If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation , a ram without blemish out of the flock , valued in silver shekels , according to the shekel of the sanctuary , for a guilt offering .

¹⁶He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest . And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering , and he shall be forgiven .

¹⁷If anyone sins , doing any of the things that by the Lord ’s commandments ought not to be done , though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt , he shall bear his iniquity .

¹⁸He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock , or its equivalent for a guilt offering , and the priest shall make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unintentionally , and he shall be forgiven .

¹⁹It is a guilt offering ; he has indeed incurred guilt before the Lord.