This edition follows the Hebrew versification; the traditional number is given in brackets.
Sin Offerings Within Everyone’s Reach
1If someone sins because he hears a public call to testify, and although he witnessed it or knows about it, does not speak up, he bears the guilt. 2Or if someone touches anything unclean — the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or of unclean livestock, or of an unclean swarming creature — without being aware of it, he becomes unclean and guilty. 3Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever kind that makes a person unclean, without being aware of it, but later comes to know it, he is guilty. 4Or if someone rashly swears an oath, whether to do good or evil — whatever a person may rashly swear — without being aware of it, but later comes to know it, he is guilty in such a matter. 5When someone is guilty in any of these ways, he must confess how he has sinned. 6He is to bring to Yahweh as his guilt offering, for the sin he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a female goat, as a sin offering, and the priest will make atonement for him for his sin. 7If he cannot afford a lamb, he is to bring to Yahweh as restitution for his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons — one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering. 8He is to bring them to the priest, who will first present the one for the sin offering. He is to wring its head from its neck without severing it completely, 9and sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering against the side of the altar; the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. 10He is to prepare the second bird as a burnt offering, according to the regulation. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven. 11But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he is to bring as his 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. 12He is to bring it to the priest, who will take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn it on the altar with the fire offerings to Yahweh. It is a sin offering. 13In this way the priest will make atonement for him for whichever of these sins he has committed, and he will be forgiven. The rest belongs to the priest, like the grain offering.”
The Guilt Offering for Sacred Things
14Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 15“If someone commits a violation, sinning unintentionally against any of Yahweh’s holy things, he is to bring to Yahweh as his guilt offering a ram without defect from the flock, valued in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, as a guilt offering. 16He must make restitution for the wrong he has done regarding the holy thing, adding a fifth of its value, and give it to the priest. The priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven. 17If someone sins, doing what is forbidden by any of Yahweh’s commands, without being aware of it, he is guilty and bears the consequences. 18He is to bring to the priest a ram without defect from the flock, valued for a guilt offering. The priest will make atonement for him for the mistake he made unknowingly, and he will be forgiven. 19It is a guilt offering; he has indeed incurred guilt before Yahweh.”
The Guilt Offering for Wrongs Against a Neighbor
20[6:1]Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said, 21[6:2]“If someone sins, committing a violation against Yahweh by deceiving his neighbor about a deposit, a security, or a robbery, or by extorting his neighbor, 22[6:3]or by finding something lost and lying about it, or by swearing falsely about any of these things a person may do and sin in — 23[6:4]when he sins and becomes guilty, he must return what he took by robbery or extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost thing he found, 24[6:5]or anything about which he swore falsely. He must repay it in full and add a fifth of its value, giving it to its owner on the day he presents his guilt offering. 25[6:6]Then he is to bring to Yahweh as his guilt offering a ram without defect from the flock, valued for a guilt offering, to the priest. 26[6:7]The priest will make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven for whatever he did to incur guilt.”
