Leviticus 5:1-6

Christian Standard Bible

Cases Requiring Sin Offerings

5 “When someone sins in any of these ways:

If he has seen, heard, or known about something he has witnessed, and did not respond to a public call to testify, he will bear his iniquity.^(A)

² Or if someone touches anything unclean^(B)—a carcass of an unclean wild animal,^(C) or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature^(D)—without being aware of it, he is unclean and incurs guilt.^(E)

³ Or if he touches human uncleanness^(F)—any uncleanness by which one can become defiled^(G)—without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he incurs guilt.

⁴ Or if someone swears rashly^(H) to do what is good or evil—concerning anything a person may speak rashly in an oath—without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he incurs guilt in such an instance.

⁵ If someone incurs guilt in one of these cases, he is to confess^(I) he has committed that sin. ⁶ He must bring his penalty for guilt^(J) for the sin he has committed to the Lord: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement^(K) on his behalf for his sin.