²² “When a leader^[a](A) sins and unintentionally violates any of the commands of the Lord his God by doing what is prohibited, and incurs guilt, ²³ or someone informs him about the sin he has committed, he is to bring an unblemished male goat^(B) as his offering. ²⁴ He is to lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering^(C) is slaughtered before the Lord. It is a sin offering.^{(D) 25} Then the priest must take some of the blood from the sin offering with his finger and apply it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering.^(E) The rest of its blood he must pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering. ²⁶ He must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the fellowship sacrifice. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for that person’s sin, and he will be forgiven.

The Sin Offering

²⁴ The Lord spoke to Moses: ²⁵ “Tell Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the sin offering.^(A) The sin offering is most holy and must be slaughtered before the Lord at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered. ²⁶ The priest who offers it as a sin offering is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place,^(B) in the courtyard of the tent of meeting. ²⁷ Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of its blood spatters on a garment, then you must wash that garment^[a] in a holy place. ²⁸ A clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it must be scoured and rinsed with water. ²⁹ Any male among the priests may eat it; it is especially holy. ³⁰ But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place; it must be burned up.

Monthly Offerings

¹¹ “At the beginning of each of your months present a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old—all unblemished— ¹² with six quarts^[a] of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each bull, four quarts^[b] of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for the ram, ¹³ and two quarts^[c] of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each lamb. It is a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord. ¹⁴ Their drink offerings are to be two quarts^[d] of wine with each bull, one and a third quarts^[e] with the ram, and one quart^[f] with each male lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering for all the months of the year. ¹⁵ And one male goat is to be offered as a sin offering to the Lord, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering.