Sins Requiring a Sin Offering
And when a soul sins in that he hears a public call to testify, and he is a witness — whether he has seen or has known — if he does not tell it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
Or a soul who touches any unclean thing — whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of an unclean swarming thing — and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, and guilty;
or when he touches human uncleanness — any uncleanness of his by which one becomes unclean — and it is hidden from him, and then he knows it, and is guilty;
or when a soul swears, speaking rashly with the lips to do evil or to do good — whatever a man may speak rashly with an oath — and it is hidden from him, and then he knows it, and is guilty of one of these —
and it shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, that he shall confess that in which he has sinned,
and he shall bring his guilt penalty to the LORD for his sin that he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a female goat, as a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.
And if his hand cannot reach enough for a lamb, then he shall bring as his guilt penalty for what he has sinned two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the LORD — one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.
And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall bring near the one for the sin offering first, and wring its head from its neck without dividing it.
And he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the wall of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.
And the second he shall offer as a burnt offering, according to the judgment. And the priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
And if his hand cannot attain two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for what he has sinned a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He shall not put oil on it, and he shall not set frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as its memorial portion, and turn it into smoke on the altar, on the fire offerings of the LORD. It is a sin offering.
And the priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he has sinned in any one of these, and it shall be forgiven him. And it shall belong to the priest, like the grain offering.”
Laws for Guilt Offerings
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“When a soul commits an act of unfaithfulness and sins unintentionally against the holy things of the LORD, then he shall bring his guilt penalty to the LORD: a ram without blemish from the flock, by your valuation in silver shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, as a guilt offering.
And he shall make good what he sinned against the holy thing, and shall add a fifth of it to it, and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
And if a soul sins and does one of all the commandments of the LORD about things not to be done, though he did not know it — still he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
And he shall bring a ram without blemish from the flock, by your valuation, as a guilt offering, to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him, for the error he committed without knowing it, and it shall be forgiven him.
It is a guilt offering; he has surely become guilty before the LORD.”