1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 "Tell the children of Israel: When a person sins by mistake against any of the LORD's commandments concerning things not to be done, and does one of them—
3 if it is the anointed priest who sins, so bringing guilt on the people, he shall present to the LORD, for the sin he has committed, an unblemished young bull as a sin offering.
4 He is to bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD, press his hand on the bull's head, and slaughter the bull before the LORD.
5 The anointed priest shall then take some of the bull's blood and carry it into the tent of meeting.
6 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD, toward the veil of the sanctuary.
7 The priest shall also put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that stands before the LORD in the tent of meeting, and the whole of the bull's blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
8 All the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall lift off from it: the fat covering the inner parts and all the fat upon the inner parts,
9 the two kidneys with the fat on them, which is by the loins, and the appendage on the liver, which he is to take away along with the kidneys,
10 just as it is lifted off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall send them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering.
11 But the bull's hide and all its flesh, together with its head and its legs, its inner parts and its dung—
12 the whole bull—he shall carry out to a clean place outside the camp, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out, there it is to be burned.
13 "If the whole congregation of Israel goes astray unintentionally, and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that the LORD has commanded not to be done, and so incur guilt,
14 then when the sin they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall present a young bull as a sin offering and bring it before the tent of meeting.
15 The elders of the congregation shall press their hands on the bull's head before the LORD, and the bull shall be slaughtered before the LORD.
16 The anointed priest shall then carry some of the bull's blood into the tent of meeting.
17 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, toward the veil.
18 Some of the blood he shall put on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting, and the whole of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
19 All its fat he shall lift off from it and send up in smoke on the altar.
20 He is to do with this bull exactly as he did with the bull of the sin offering; that is what he shall do with it. So the priest shall make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.
21 Then he shall carry the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
22 "When a ruler sins, doing unintentionally any one of all the things that the LORD his God has commanded not to be done, and incurs guilt,
23 or the sin he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, an unblemished male.
24 He shall press his hand on the goat's head and slaughter it before the LORD at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered; it is a sin offering.
25 The priest shall take with his finger some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
26 All its fat he shall send up in smoke on the altar, as with the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.
27 "If any one of the people of the land sins unintentionally, doing one of the things that the LORD has commanded not to be done, and incurs guilt,
28 or the sin he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, an unblemished female, for the sin he has committed.
29 He shall press his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter the sin offering at the place of the burnt offering.
30 The priest shall take with his finger some of its blood and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and the whole of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
31 All its fat he shall take away, as fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall send it up in smoke on the altar for a pleasing aroma to the LORD. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.
32 "If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he is to bring an unblemished female.
33 He shall press his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it as a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.
34 The priest shall take with his finger some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and the whole of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
35 All its fat he shall take away, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall send them up in smoke on the altar, on top of the food offerings of the LORD. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.