12 (A)Who can discern his errors?
    (B)Declare me innocent from (C)hidden faults.

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You have (A)set our iniquities before you,
    our (B)secret sins in the light of your presence.

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The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately sick;
    who can understand it?

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24 “Teach me, and I will be silent;
    make me understand how I have gone astray.

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23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
    (A)Try me and know my thoughts![a]
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
    and (B)lead me in (C)the way everlasting![b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:23 Or cares
  2. Psalm 139:24 Or in the ancient way (compare Jeremiah 6:16)

12 For evils have (A)encompassed me
    beyond number;
my (B)iniquities have overtaken me,
    and I cannot (C)see;
they are (D)more than the hairs of my head;
    my heart (E)fails me.

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(A)For I am not aware of anything against myself, (B)but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

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But (A)if we walk in the light, (B)as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and (C)the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

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but into the second only (A)the high priest goes, and he but (B)once a year, and not without taking blood, (C)which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.

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(A)We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
(B)We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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(A)Such knowledge is (B)too wonderful for me;
    it is high; I cannot attain it.

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You (A)know when I sit down and when I rise up;
    you (B)discern my thoughts from afar.

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When (A)iniquities prevail against me,
    you (B)atone for our transgressions.

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Behold, (A)I was brought forth in iniquity,
    and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Behold, you delight in truth in (B)the inward being,
    and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

Purge me (C)with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
    (D)wash me, and I shall be (E)whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness;
    (F)let the bones (G)that you have broken rejoice.
(H)Hide your face from my sins,
    and (I)blot out all my iniquities.
10 (J)Create in me a (K)clean heart, O God,
    and (L)renew a right[a] spirit within me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 51:10 Or steadfast

“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, (A)If anyone sins unintentionally[a] in any of the Lord's commandments (B)about things not to be done, and does any one of them, if it is the anointed priest who (C)sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed (D)a bull from the herd without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering. He shall bring the bull to the (E)entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord and lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before the Lord. And the anointed priest (F)shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting, and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and (G)sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil of the sanctuary. And the priest (H)shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the Lord that is in the tent of meeting, and (I)all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall remove from it, (J)the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails (K)and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys 10 (just as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offerings); and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. 11 But (L)the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung— 12 all the rest of the bull—he shall carry (M)outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall (N)burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up.

13 (O)“If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally[b] and (P)the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt,[c] 14 (Q)when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting. 15 And the elders of the congregation (R)shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the Lord, and the bull shall be killed before the Lord. 16 Then (S)the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting, 17 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord in front of the veil. 18 And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is in the tent of meeting before the Lord, and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 19 And all its fat he shall take from it and burn on the altar. 20 Thus shall he do with the bull. As he did (T)with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. (U)And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven. 21 And he shall carry the bull (V)outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.

22 “When a leader sins, (W)doing unintentionally any one of all the things that by the commandments of the Lord his God ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, 23 or (X)the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish, 24 and (Y)shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord; it is a sin offering. 25 (Z)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 of burnt offering and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering. 26 And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like (AA)the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So (AB)the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.

27 “If (AC)anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, 28 (AD)or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed. 29 (AE)And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. 30 And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. 31 And (AF)all its fat he shall remove, (AG)as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a (AH)pleasing aroma to the Lord. (AI)And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

32 “If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring (AJ)a female without blemish 33 (AK)and lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill 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 of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. 35 And all its fat he shall remove (AL)as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on top of the Lord's food offerings. (AM)And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 4:2 Or by mistake; so throughout Leviticus
  2. Leviticus 4:13 Or makes a mistake
  3. Leviticus 4:13 Or suffer for their guilt, or are guilty; also verses 22, 27, and chapter 5

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