Leviticus 5

1If someone hears a public call for witnesses made under a curse, and they saw what happened or know about it but do not speak up, they have sinned and will carry their guilt. 2Or someone may touch anything unclean, such as the dead body of an unclean wild animal, unclean livestock or an unclean creature that swarms, without realizing it. They have become unclean and are guilty. 3Or someone may come into contact with human uncleanness of any kind that makes a person unclean, and not notice it. Once they learn of it, they are guilty. 4Or someone may swear without thinking that they will do something, harmful or good, the kind of oath people make in haste, and then forget it. When they realize it, they are guilty in any of these cases. 5Whoever is guilty in any of these ways must confess the sin they have committed 6and bring to the LORD what is owed for the sin: a female animal from the flock, a lamb or a goat, as a sin offering. The priest will make atonement for them for their sin. 7If a lamb is more than they can afford, they may bring the LORD two turtledoves or two young pigeons to pay for their sin. One of them is for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. 8The priest receives them and first presents the bird for the sin offering. He breaks its neck at the front but does not pull the head off. 9Some of its blood he is to sprinkle on the side of the altar, and what is left is to be pressed out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. 10He is to offer the second bird as a burnt offering in the prescribed way. Through this the priest makes atonement for them for their sin, and they will be forgiven.

11If even two turtledoves or two young pigeons are beyond their means, the one who sinned is to bring about 2 quarts of fine flour as a sin offering. No oil or frankincense is to be put on it, since it is a sin offering. 12The flour is brought to the priest. He takes a full handful from it as its memorial portion and turns it into smoke on the altar, with the food offerings to the LORD. It is a sin offering. 13The priest is to make atonement for them for the sin they committed in any one of these cases; then they will be forgiven. The rest of the flour belongs to the priest, as with the grain offering.’”

14The LORD spoke to Moses. He said, 15“If anyone sins without intending to and wrongs the LORD in the matter of his holy things, they must bring a ram from the flock with no defect to the LORD as their guilt offering. Its value is set in shekels of silver by the sanctuary shekel. It is a guilt offering. 16They must also pay back in full what they wrongly kept from the holy things, with a fifth of its value added, and give it to the priest. With the ram of the guilt offering the priest will make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.

17Suppose someone sins by breaking one of the commands of the LORD, doing what must not be done, and is unaware of it. They are guilty all the same and will carry their guilt, 18and must bring a ram without defect from the flock, of the set value, to the priest as a guilt offering. So the priest will make atonement for them for the error they did not know they had made, and they will be forgiven. 19It is a guilt offering. They have certainly become guilty before the LORD.”