Leviticus 4:18-34

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁸ He shall also put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the Lord in the Tent of Meeting. All the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar for burnt offerings, which is at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. ¹⁹ He is to reserve all its fat and send it up in smoke on the altar. ²⁰ He is to perform the same procedure for this bull as he performed for the bull of the sin offering. He shall perform the same procedure for it.^[a] This is the way the priest is to make atonement for them, so that they may be forgiven. ²¹ The bull is to be carried outside the camp, and it is to be burned just as the first bull was burned. It is a sin offering for the assembly.

²² When a tribal leader sins by unintentionally disobeying any of the commands of the Lord his God and doing something that should not be done, and he then realizes his guilt, ²³ or the sin which he has committed has been made known to him, he shall bring a male goat without blemish as his offering. ²⁴ He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat. It is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the Lord. It is a sin offering. ²⁵ The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings, and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar for burnt offerings. ²⁶ He shall turn all its fat into smoke on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of the fellowship offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, so that he may be forgiven.

²⁷ If any common person from the land sins by unintentionally violating any of the Lord’s commands by doing something that should not be done, and he then realizes his guilt, ²⁸ or the sin that he committed has been made known to him, he shall bring a female goat without blemish as his offering for the sin that he has committed. ²⁹ He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter the sin offering at the place for the burnt offering. ³⁰ Then the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. All the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. ³¹ After he removes all its fat, just as the fat was removed from the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, the priest shall send it up in smoke on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. In this way the priest shall make atonement for him, so that he may be forgiven.

³² If he brings a sheep as his sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish. ³³ He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it as a sin offering in the place where he would slaughter 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 for burnt offerings. All the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.