Leviticus 5

1If anyone sins because he hears the public call to testify under oath and does not speak up, though he is a witness who has seen or knows about the matter, he will bear his guilt.

2Or if anyone touches anything unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of an unclean swarming creature, and it is hidden from him, he has become unclean and is guilty.

3Or if he touches human uncleanness, any kind of uncleanness by which a person becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he learns of it he is guilty.

4Or if anyone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do harm or to do good, in any matter that a person may swear about thoughtlessly, and it is hidden from him, when he learns of it he is guilty in any of these matters.

5When he becomes guilty in any of these, he is to confess the sin he has committed.

6He is to bring to Yahweh his penalty for the sin he has committed: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him for his sin.

7But if he cannot afford a lamb, he is to bring to Yahweh, as his penalty for the sin he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.

8He is to bring them to the priest, who is to offer first the one for the sin offering. He is to wring its head at the back of its neck without severing it.

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

10He is to offer the second as a burnt offering according to the regulation. So the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

11But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he is to bring as his offering for the sin he has committed a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He must not put oil on it or put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

12He is to bring it to the priest, and the priest is to take a full handful of it as its memorial portion and burn it on the altar on top of the fire offerings to Yahweh. It is a sin offering.

13So the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed in any of these matters, and he will be forgiven. The rest will belong to the priest, as with the grain offering.”

14Yahweh spoke to Moses:

15“When anyone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally with regard to any of Yahweh’s holy things, he is to bring to Yahweh as his guilt offering a ram without defect from the flock, valued by you in silver shekels, by the sanctuary shekel, as a guilt offering.

16He is to make restitution for what he has sinned against the holy thing, add a fifth to it, and give it to the priest. The priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

17If anyone sins and does any one of the things that Yahweh has commanded must not be done, though he does not know it, he is guilty and will bear his guilt.

18He is to bring to the priest a ram without defect from the flock, at your valuation, as a guilt offering. The priest will make atonement for him for the error he committed unintentionally without knowing it, and he will be forgiven.

19It is a guilt offering; he was certainly guilty before Yahweh.”