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Laws for Guilt Offerings

14 Then[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 15 “When a person[b] displays infidelity[c] and he sins in an unintentional wrong in any of[d] Yahweh’s holy things, then[e] he shall bring his guilt offering to[f] Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock[g] as a guilt offering by your valuation in silver shekels[h] according to the sanctuary shekel. 16 And he shall make restitution for what he sinned because of[i] a holy thing and shall add one-fifth of its value[j] onto it and shall give it to the priest. The priest[k] shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

17 “If[l] a person[m] when he sins violates[n] one from all of Yahweh’s commands that should not be violated,[o] but[p] he did not know, then[q] he is guilty and he shall bear his guilt. 18 He shall bring[r] to the priest a ram without defect from the flock[s] as a guilt offering by your valuation, and the priest shall make atonement for him because of his unintentional wrong (although[t] he himself did not know), and he will be forgiven. 19 It is a guilt offering; he certainly was guilty before Yahweh.”

Additional Laws for Burnt Offerings

[u] Then[v] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “When a person[w] displays infidelity[x] against Yahweh and he deceives his fellow citizen regarding[y] something entrusted or a pledge[z] or stealing or he exploits his fellow citizen, or he finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely[aa] in regard to[ab] any one of these things by which a person[ac] might commit sin, and when[ad] he sins and is guilty, then[ae] he shall bring back the things he had stolen[af] or what he had extorted[ag] or something with which he had been entrusted[ah] or the lost property that he had found, or regarding[ai] anything about which he has sworn falsely,[aj] then[ak] he shall repay it according to[al] its value and shall add one-fifth of its value to it—he must give it to whom it belongs[am] on the day of his guilt offering. And he must bring as his guilt offering to Yahweh a ram without defect from the flock[an] by your valuation[ao] as a guilt offering to the priest, and the priest shall make atonement for him before[ap] Yahweh, and he shall be forgiven anything[aq] from all that he might do by which he might incur guilt.”[ar]

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 5:14 Or “And”
  2. Leviticus 5:15 Or “a soul”
  3. Leviticus 5:15 Literally “acts unfaithfully infidelity” or “is unfaithful in unfaithfulness”
  4. Leviticus 5:15 Literally “from”
  5. Leviticus 5:15 Or “and”
  6. Leviticus 5:15 Or “for”
  7. Leviticus 5:15 The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
  8. Leviticus 5:15 Or “convertible into silver shekels” (NET, NRSV, TNK), “of the proper value in silver” (NIV; cp. ESV “valued in silver shekels,” CSB), or “or you may buy one of equal value with silver” (NLT)
  9. Leviticus 5:16 Literally “from” (see HALOT 598)
  10. Leviticus 5:16 Literally “it”
  11. Leviticus 5:16 Or “And the priest”
  12. Leviticus 5:17 Or “And if”
  13. Leviticus 5:17 Or “a soul”
  14. Leviticus 5:17 Literally “and she/it does”
  15. Leviticus 5:17 Literally “they are to be done”
  16. Leviticus 5:17 Or “and”
  17. Leviticus 5:17 Or “and”
  18. Leviticus 5:18 Or “And he shall bring”
  19. Leviticus 5:18 The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
  20. Leviticus 5:18 Or “and”
  21. Leviticus 6:1 Leviticus 6:1–30 in the English Bible is 5:20–6:23 in the Hebrew Bible
  22. Leviticus 6:1 Or “And”
  23. Leviticus 6:2 Or “a soul”
  24. Leviticus 6:2 Literally “acts unfaithfully infidelity” or “is unfaithful in unfaithfulness”
  25. Leviticus 6:2 Literally “in”
  26. Leviticus 6:2 Literally “a pledge of a hand”
  27. Leviticus 6:3 Literally “in accordance with deception”
  28. Leviticus 6:3 Literally “on” or “upon”
  29. Leviticus 6:3 Literally “the man”
  30. Leviticus 6:4 Literally “and it will be when”
  31. Leviticus 6:4 Or “and”
  32. Leviticus 6:4 Literally “the robbed things that he had stolen”
  33. Leviticus 6:4 Literally “the extortion that he had extorted”
  34. Leviticus 6:4 Literally “something entrusted that had been entrusted to him”
  35. Leviticus 6:5 Literally “from”
  36. Leviticus 6:5 Literally “in accordance with deception”
  37. Leviticus 6:5 Or “and”
  38. Leviticus 6:5 Literally “in”
  39. Leviticus 6:5 Literally “to whom it is to him”
  40. Leviticus 6:6 The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
  41. Leviticus 6:6 See 5:15 and 18
  42. Leviticus 6:7 Literally “to the faces of”
  43. Leviticus 6:7 Literally “one”
  44. Leviticus 6:7 Literally “which he might do for incurring guilt by it”

The Guilt Offering

14 The Lord said to Moses: 15 “When anyone is unfaithful to the Lord by sinning unintentionally(A) in regard to any of the Lord’s holy things, they are to bring to the Lord as a penalty(B) a ram(C) from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value in silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.[a](D) It is a guilt offering.(E) 16 They must make restitution(F) for what they have failed to do in regard to the holy things, pay an additional penalty of a fifth of its value(G) and give it all to the priest. The priest will make atonement for them with the ram as a guilt offering, and they will be forgiven.

17 “If anyone sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, even though they do not know it,(H) they are guilty and will be held responsible.(I) 18 They are to bring to the priest as a guilt offering(J) a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value. In this way the priest will make atonement for them for the wrong they have committed unintentionally, and they will be forgiven.(K) 19 It is a guilt offering; they have been guilty of[b] wrongdoing against the Lord.”(L)

[c]The Lord said to Moses: “If anyone sins and is unfaithful to the Lord(M) by deceiving a neighbor(N) about something entrusted to them or left in their care(O) or about something stolen, or if they cheat(P) their neighbor, or if they find lost property and lie about it,(Q) or if they swear falsely(R) about any such sin that people may commit— when they sin in any of these ways and realize their guilt, they must return(S) what they have stolen or taken by extortion, or what was entrusted to them, or the lost property they found, or whatever it was they swore falsely about. They must make restitution(T) in full, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the owner on the day they present their guilt offering.(U) And as a penalty they must bring to the priest, that is, to the Lord, their guilt offering,(V) a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value.(W) In this way the priest will make atonement(X) for them before the Lord, and they will be forgiven for any of the things they did that made them guilty.”

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 5:15 That is, about 2/5 ounce or about 12 grams
  2. Leviticus 5:19 Or offering; atonement has been made for their
  3. Leviticus 6:1 In Hebrew texts 6:1-7 is numbered 5:20-26, and 6:8-30 is numbered 6:1-23.