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.”

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.

and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.

And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland.

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin.

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,

When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

When the king of Ai saw this, he and all the men of the city hurried out early in the morning to meet Israel in battle at a certain place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set against him behind the city.

another toward Beth Horon, and the third toward the borderland overlooking the Valley of Zeboyim facing the wilderness.

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;

When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped.

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.

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

Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult.

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.”