New American Standard Bible 2020

Leviticus 5:4-13

4Or if a person 1swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever matter people speak thoughtlessly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty of one of these things. 5So it shall be when he becomes guilty of one of these things, that he shall 2confess that in which he has sinned. 6He shall also bring his guilt offering to the Lord for his sin which he has 3committed, 4a female from the flock, a lamb or a 5goat as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin.

7‘But if 6he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the Lord his guilt offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves or two young doves, 7one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. 8He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer that which is for the sin offering, and shall pinch off its head at the front of its neck, but he 8shall not sever it. 9He shall also sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering 9on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out 10at the base of the altar: it is a sin offering. 10The second he shall then prepare as a burnt offering 11according to the ordinance. 12So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has 13committed, and it will be forgiven him.

11‘But 14if his 15means are insufficient for two turtledoves or two young doves, then for his offering for that which he has sinned, he shall bring the tenth of an 16ephah of fine flour as a sin offering; 17he shall not put oil on it or place incense on it, for it is a sin offering. 12He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar, 18with the offerings of the Lord by fire: it is a sin offering. 13So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has 19committed from 20one of these, and it will be forgiven him; then 21the rest shall become the priest’s, like the grain offering.’”

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Notes

1. Leviticus 5:4 Num 30:6, 8; Ps 106:33 ↩
2. Leviticus 5:5 Lev 16:21; 26:40; Num 5:7; Prov 28:13 ↩
3. Leviticus 5:6 Lit sinned ↩
4. Leviticus 5:6 Lev 4:28, 32 ↩
5. Leviticus 5:6 Lit female goat ↩
6. Leviticus 5:7 Lit his hand does not reach enough for ↩
7. Leviticus 5:7 Lev 12:6, 8; 14:22, 30, 31 ↩
8. Leviticus 5:8 Lev 1:17 ↩
9. Leviticus 5:9 Lev 1:15 ↩
10. Leviticus 5:9 Lev 4:7, 18 ↩
11. Leviticus 5:10 Lev 1:14-17 ↩
12. Leviticus 5:10 Lev 4:20, 26; 5:13, 16 ↩
13. Leviticus 5:10 Lit sinned ↩
14. Leviticus 5:11 Lev 14:21-32; 27:8 ↩
15. Leviticus 5:11 Lit hand does not reach ↩
16. Leviticus 5:11 About 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters ↩
17. Leviticus 5:11 Lev 2:1, 2 ↩
18. Leviticus 5:12 Lit upon ↩
19. Leviticus 5:13 Lit sinned ↩
20. Leviticus 5:13 Lev 5:4, 5 ↩
21. Leviticus 5:13 Lev 2:3 ↩

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