²⁰ You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.

¹⁸ “Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, ^(A)on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull from the herd without blemish, and ^(B)purify the sanctuary.

¹⁵ And one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the watering places of Israel for grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offerings, ^(A)to make atonement for them, declares the Lord God.

²⁰ “And when he has made an end of ^(A)atoning for the Holy Place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat.

²⁷ “If ^(A)anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, ^28 (B)or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed. ^29 (C)And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. ³⁰ And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. ³¹ And ^(D)all its fat he shall remove, ^(E)as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a ^(F)pleasing aroma to the Lord. ^(G)And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

³² “If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring ^(H)a female without blemish ^33 (I)and lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. ³⁴ Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. ³⁵ And all its fat he shall remove ^(J)as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on top of the Lord's food offerings. ^(K)And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.

^2 (A)He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself ^(B)is beset with weakness.

¹⁸ For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but ^(A)their own appetites,^[a] and ^(B)by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. ¹⁹ For ^(C)your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you ^(D)to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.