20 “‘If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man(A) but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment.[a] Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed. 21 The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the tent of meeting for a guilt offering to the Lord.(B) 22 With the ram of the guilt offering the priest is to make atonement for him before the Lord for the sin he has committed, and his sin will be forgiven.(C)

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  1. Leviticus 19:20 Or be an inquiry

20 “‘And when a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen and she is a female slave promised to a man, but[a] she indeed has not been ransomed or freedom has not be given to her, there shall be an obligation to compensate; they shall not be put to death, because she has not been freed. 21 And he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh at the tent of assembly’s entrance: a ram for a guilt offering. 22 And the priest shall make atonement for him before[b] Yahweh with the ram of the guilt offering for his sin that he committed,[c] and so his sin that he committed[d] shall be forgiven him.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:20 Or “and”
  2. Leviticus 19:22 Literally “to the faces of”
  3. Leviticus 19:22 Literally “sinned”
  4. Leviticus 19:22 Literally “sinned”