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Offerings With Restitution

14 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 15 When a person acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally in regard to the holy things of the Lord, then for his restitution offering to the Lord he shall bring a ram without blemish from the flock—or its equivalent, in your estimation, in silver shekels (using the sanctuary shekel[a])—for a guilt offering. 16 And he shall repay the sin that he committed with regard to the holy thing and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.

17 If a person sins unintentionally and does any one of the things that by commandments of the Lord should not be done and he is found guilty, he shall bear his iniquity. 18 He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish from the flock—or its equivalent value[b]—for a guilt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his error that he made unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven. 19 It is a guilt offering: He has indeed incurred guilt before the Lord.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the Lord by lying to another concerning something left in storage, or entrusted to him, or theft, or by extorting his neighbor, or by finding a lost item and lying about it, and he swears falsely concerning one of all the things that a man may do to sin in these things, when he sins and he is found guilty, he shall return whatever he stole, or whatever he extorted, or whatever was left in storage with him, or the lost item which he found, or about which he swore falsely, then he shall repay it in full and shall add one-fifth to it. He shall give it to whom it belongs on the day that he is found guilty. And he shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord, a ram without blemish from the flock—or its equivalent value[c]—for a guilt offering to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 5:15 About ⅖ ounce, or 12 grams.
  2. Leviticus 5:18 This is a shorthand version of the full formula found in Lev 5:15.
  3. Leviticus 6:6 Shorthand version of the full formula found in Lev 5:15.

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”