Sins Requiring a Sin Offering
1. If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.
2. Or if someone touches anything unclean–a carcass of an unclean wild animal or livestock or a carcass of an unclean swarming creature–and is unaware of it, he has become unclean and is guilty.
3. Or if he touches human uncleanness–any uncleanness by which one may become defiled–and is unaware of it, but later recognizes it, he is guilty.
4. Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good–in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath–and he is unaware of it, but later recognizes it, he will be guilty of sin in any of these matters.
5. When someone becomes guilty in any of these ways, he must confess in what manner he has sinned
6. and bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female from the flock–a lamb or a goat–as a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for his sin.
7. But if he cannot afford a lamb, he shall bring to the LORD as his guilt offering for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two young pigeons–one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.
8. He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first present the one for the sin offering. He is to twist its head at the back of the neck without severing it.
9. Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.
10. He shall prepare the second bird as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.
11. If, however, he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring as an offering for his sin a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He must not put oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.
12. He shall bring it to the priest, who shall take a handful from it as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar atop the offerings made by fire to the LORD; it is a sin offering.
13. So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the sin he has committed in any of these matters, and he will be forgiven. The rest will belong to the priest, like the grain offering.'”
Laws for Guilt Offerings
14. Then the LORD said to Moses,
15. “If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, as a guilt offering.
16. He must make restitution for his sin regarding any holy thing, adding a fifth to its value, and give it to the priest. Then the priest shall make atonement on his behalf with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.
17. If someone sins and violates any of the LORD’s commandments, even if he was unaware, he is still guilty and shall bear his iniquity.
18. He must bring an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value, as a guilt offering to the priest. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the error he committed unintentionally, and he will be forgiven.
19. It is a guilt offering; he is indeed guilty before the LORD.”