Sins Requiring an Offering

1 And if a man sins by hearing a demand to testify under oath as a witness to something he has seen or knows, but does not disclose it, he shall bear his sin. 2 Or if a man has touched anything unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of an unclean reptile, and it is hidden from him, he shall be defiled and guilty. 3 Or if he touches the uncleanness of a man, any uncleanness which defiles him, and it is hidden from him; but he later becomes aware of it and is guilty; 4 or if a man makes an affirmation,⁠a declaring with his lips, for evil or for good, according to whatever the man shall declare by affirmation, and the truth is hidden from him, and he later learns of it, he is guilty of one of these. 5 And it shall be that when he knows that he is guilty in one of these things he shall confess that he has sinned in this way; 6 and shall bring his sin offering before the Lord for the sin he has committed; a female lamb from the flock, or a young goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall atone for him and for his sin. 7 But if he cannot afford a lamb, let him bring for the sin he has committed two turtledoves, or two young pigeons before the Lord, one for the sin offering, and one for the burnt sacrifice. 8 And he shall bring them to the priest, and he shall offer the sin offering first, and wring off its head near to the spine, but he shall not separate the bird completely. 9 And he shall sprinkle the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and pour out the remainder of the blood at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering. 10 And he shall make the second a burnt sacrifice, according to the prescribed procedure; and the priest shall make atonement for the sin he has committed, and he shall be forgiven. 11 But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or a pair of young pigeons, he shall bring, as his offering for the sin he has committed, the tenth of three seahs of flour for a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. 12 And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it as the memorial of it, and burn it at the altar with the offerings of the Lord: it is a sin offering. 13 And the priest shall make atonement for him, for the sin he has committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven: and it shall belong to the priest, like the mincha.

Restitution and Trespass Offerings

14 And the Lord spoke with Moses, saying: 15 When a man has acted unfaithfully and sinned unintentionally concerning things consecrated to the Lord, he shall bring for his trespass offering before the Lord a ram without blemish from the flock by its value in silver shekels, in the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering. 16 And he shall repay what he has withheld from the holy thing, and add a fifth to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he shall be forgiven. 17 And if a man sins and violates any of the Lord's commandments by doing what should not be done, without knowing it, and incurs guilt, he shall bear his sin. 18 But he shall bring a lamb unblemished from the flock according to the valuation for a trespass offering to the priest; and the priest shall atone for his error which he committed unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven. 19 It is an asham for the offenses he has committed; he shall offer the asham before the Lord.⁠b 20 And the Lord spoke with Moses, saying: 21 If a man sins and acts deceitfully before the Lord, and deals dishonestly with his neighbor over a deposit, a partnership of hands,⁠c robbery, or something taken from his neighbor by force; 22 or if he has found something lost and denies it, and swears falsely, in any of these ways in which a man acts and sins; 23 it shall be that when he has committed an offense and become guilty, he shall return what he has stolen, or taken away by violence, or the deposit which was deposited with him, or the lost thing that he had found: 24 or anything about which he had sworn falsely, he shall repay the principal, and add one fifth to it; he shall give it to its owner on the day of his guilt offering. 25 And he shall bring his trespass offering before the Lord to the priest: a ram unblemished from the flock according to the valuation for the trespass offering. 26 And the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven for any one of all these in which he may have acted and incurred guilt.