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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”

Laws for Guilt Offerings

14 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 15 (A)“If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the Lord, (B)he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued[a] in silver shekels,[b] according to the (C)shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering. 16 He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and (D)shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. (E)And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.

17 (F)“If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, (G)though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity. 18 (H)He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering, and (I)the priest shall make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven. 19 It is a guilt offering; he has indeed incurred guilt before[c] the Lord.”

[d] The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone sins and (J)commits a breach of faith against the Lord by (K)deceiving his neighbor in (L)a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or (M)if he has oppressed his neighbor or (N)has found something lost and lied about it, (O)swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore (P)what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall (Q)restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt. And he shall bring to the priest as his compensation to the Lord (R)a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering. (S)And the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and thereby become guilty.”

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 5:15 Or flock, or its equivalent
  2. Leviticus 5:15 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
  3. Leviticus 5:19 Or he has paid full compensation to
  4. Leviticus 6:1 Ch 5:20 in Hebrew