To Sarah he said, “I am giving your brother a thousand shekels of silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.”

The Cupbearer and the Baker

Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.

“If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows.

“If anyone grazes their livestock in a field or vineyard and lets them stray and they graze in someone else’s field, the offender must make restitution from the best of their own field or vineyard.

Duties of Priests and Levites

The Lord said to Aaron, “You, your sons and your family are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the priesthood.

It is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent of meeting and bear the responsibility for any offenses they commit against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. They will receive no inheritance among the Israelites.

Witnesses

One witness is not enough to convict anyone accused of any crime or offense they may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Various Laws

If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole,

If one person sins against another, God may mediate for the offender; but if anyone sins against the Lord, who will intercede for them?” His sons, however, did not listen to their father’s rebuke, for it was the Lord’s will to put them to death.

Abner was very angry because of what Ish-Bosheth said. So he answered, “Am I a dog’s head—on Judah’s side? This very day I am loyal to the house of your father Saul and to his family and friends. I haven’t handed you over to David. Yet now you accuse me of an offense involving this woman!

And forgive your people, who have sinned against you; forgive all the offenses they have committed against you, and cause their captors to show them mercy;

Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.”

If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.

How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my offense and my sin.

My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.

My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.

“Suppose someone says to God, ‘I am guilty but will offend no more.

See how they lie in wait for me! Fierce men conspire against me for no offense or sin of mine, Lord.

See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.

A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.

If a ruler’s anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great offenses to rest.

You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses.

I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.”

For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: