Leviticus 5-6

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5 ‘If a person sins by saying nothing when he is told in court to tell what he knows or what he has seen, he will become guilty. ² If a person touches anything that is unclean, the dead body of a wild animal, or of cattle, or of anything that moves on the earth that is unclean, even without knowing it, then he will be unclean and will be guilty. ³ Or if he touches a human who is unclean for whatever reason, without knowing it, when he learns about it, he will be guilty. ⁴ If a person without thinking swears he will do something, whether bad or good, any foolish promise a person may swear, when he learns about it, he will be guilty. ⁵ When a person is guilty in any of these, he should tell of the sin he has done. ⁶ He should bring his guilt gift to the Lord for the sin he has done, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin gift. And the religious leader will pay the price for him for his sin.

⁷ ‘But if he does not have enough money for a lamb, he should bring to the Lord as his guilt gift for his sin two turtle-doves or two young pigeons. One will be for a sin gift, and the other for a burnt gift. ⁸ He will bring them to the religious leader, who will give the sin gift first. He will break its neck without taking off its head. ⁹ Then he will put some of the blood of the sin gift on the side of the altar. He will pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. It is a sin gift. ¹⁰ Then he will make the second bird ready for a burnt gift, by following the Law. So the religious leader will pay the price for him for the sin he has done. And he will be forgiven.

¹¹ ‘But if he does not have enough money for two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, he should bring one- tenth part of a basket of fine flour for a sin gift. He should not put oil or special perfume on it, for it is a sin gift. ¹² He will bring it to the religious leader, who will take a handful of it as a part to be remembered. And he will burn this part of the flour on the altar with the gifts made by fire to the Lord. It is a sin gift. ¹³ So the religious leader will pay the price for him for the sin he has done in any of these things. And he will be forgiven. The rest of the flour will be for the religious leader, as in the grain gift.’”

Making Things Right

¹⁴ The Lord said to Moses, ¹⁵ “If a person is not faithful and sins against the holy things of the Lord without meaning to, he should bring his guilt gift to the Lord. It should be a ram that is perfect from the flock, worth money the same as the weight of silver decided upon for the holy place. It is a guilt gift. ¹⁶ He should pay for his sin against the holy thing, and add one-fifth part to it, and give it to the religious leader. Then the religious leader will give for his sin the ram of the guilt gift as the price for his sin. And he will be forgiven.

¹⁷ “If a person sins by doing any of the things the Lord has told him not to do, even without meaning to, he is guilty and must pay for his sin. ¹⁸ He will bring to the religious leader a ram that is perfect from the flock, that is decided to be the right price for a guilt gift. So the religious leader will pay the price for him for the sin he had done without meaning to. And he will be forgiven. ¹⁹ It is a guilt gift. For sure he has sinned against the Lord.”

6 The Lord said to Moses, ² “If a person is not faithful and sins against the Lord by lying to his neighbor about money given to him for safe-keeping, or by stealing, or by false ways, ³ or by finding what was lost and lying about it before God, if a man does any of the things that men sin by doing, ⁴ he will become guilty. Then he should return what he took by stealing, or what he got by false ways, or the money which was given to him for safe-keeping, or the lost thing which he found, ⁵ or anything that he lied about. He should pay for it in full, and add to it one-fifth part more. He should give it to whom it belongs on the day he gives his guilt gift. ⁶ Then he will bring to the religious leader his guilt gift to the Lord, a ram that is perfect from the flock, that you decide to be the right price for a guilt gift. ⁷ Before the Lord the religious leader will pay the price for him for whatever he did that made him guilty. And he will be forgiven.”

The Law of the Burnt Gift

⁸ The Lord said to Moses, ⁹ “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is the Law for the burnt gift. The burnt gift should stay on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire should be kept burning on the altar. ¹⁰ Then the religious leader will put on the clothing next to his flesh, and the long linen clothing over that. And he will take the ashes that are left from the fire of the burnt gift on the altar, and put them beside the altar. ¹¹ Then he will change his clothes and carry the ashes to a clean place away from the tents. ¹² The fire should be kept burning on the altar. It should not go out. The religious leader should burn wood on it every morning. He will lay the burnt gifts on it, and burn the fat parts of the peace gifts on it. ¹³ Fire should always be kept burning on the altar. It is not to go out.

The Law of the Grain Gift

¹⁴ ‘This is the Law of the grain gift. The sons of Aaron will give it to the Lord in front of the altar. ¹⁵ One of them will fill his hand with the fine flour of the grain gift, with its oil and all the special perfume that is on it, and burn it on the altar to be remembered as a pleasing smell to the Lord. ¹⁶ Aaron and his sons are to eat what is left of it. It will be eaten as loaves without yeast in a holy place. They will eat it in the open space of the meeting tent. ¹⁷ It will not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their share from My gifts by fire. It is most holy, like the sin gift and the guilt gift. ¹⁸ Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a Law forever for all your people, from the gifts by fire to the Lord. Whoever touches them will become holy.’”

¹⁹ The Lord said to Moses, ²⁰ “This is the gift which Aaron and his sons are to give to the Lord on the day when he is set apart: The tenth part of a basket of fine flour for a grain gift each day, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. ²¹ It should be cooked with oil on top of a stove. Bring it when it is mixed well, and give the grain gift in baked pieces as a pleasing smell to the Lord. ²² The religious leader among Aaron’s sons, who is chosen to be in his place, will give it. By a Law forever, all of it will be burned and given to the Lord. ²³ Every grain gift of the religious leader will be all burned. It will not be eaten.”

The Law of the Sin Gift

²⁴ The Lord said to Moses, ²⁵ “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is the Law of the sin gift. The sin gift will be killed before the Lord in the place where the burnt gift is killed. It is most holy. ²⁶ The religious leader who gives it for sin will eat it. It will be eaten in a holy place, in the open space of the meeting tent. ²⁷ Anyone who touches its flesh will become holy. When any of its blood gets on a piece of clothing, wash the blood from the clothing in a holy place. ²⁸ The clay pot in which it was made ready should be broken. But if it was made ready in a brass pot, it should be well cleaned with water. ²⁹ Every male among the religious leaders may eat of it. It is most holy. ³⁰ But no sin gift should be eaten from which any blood is brought into the meeting tent to pay for sins in the holy place. It should be burned with fire.