²⁰ You are to do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally^(A) or through ignorance; so you are to make atonement for the temple.

¹⁸ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In the first month^(A) on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect^(B) and purify the sanctuary.^(C)

¹⁵ Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings^(A) and fellowship offerings to make atonement^(B) for the people, declares the Sovereign Lord.

²⁰ “When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat.^(A)

²⁷ “‘If any member of the community sins unintentionally^(A) and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, when they realize their guilt ²⁸ and the sin they have committed becomes known, they must bring as their offering^(B) for the sin they committed a female goat^(C) without defect. ²⁹ They are to lay their hand on the head^(D) of the sin offering^(E) and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.^{(F) 30} Then the priest is to take some of the blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering^(G) and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ³¹ They shall remove all the fat, just as the fat is removed from the fellowship offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar^(H) as an aroma pleasing to the Lord.^(I) In this way the priest will make atonement^(J) for them, and they will be forgiven.^(K)

³² “‘If someone brings a lamb^(L) as their sin offering, they are to bring a female without defect.^{(M) 33} They are to lay their hand on its head and slaughter it^(N) for a sin offering^(O) at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.^{(P) 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 the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.^{(Q) 35} They shall remove all the fat, just as the fat is removed from the lamb of the fellowship offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar^(R) on top of the food offerings presented to the Lord. In this way the priest will make atonement for them for the sin they have committed, and they will be forgiven.

² He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray,^(A) since he himself is subject to weakness.^(B)

¹⁸ For such people are not serving our Lord Christ,^(A) but their own appetites.^(B) By smooth talk and flattery they deceive^(C) the minds of naive people. ¹⁹ Everyone has heard^(D) about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.^(E)