1 "When a person sins in that he hears the voice of an adjuration and is a witness, having seen or known of the matter, yet does not make it known, he shall bear his iniquity.
2 Or when a person touches anything unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean beast or the carcass of unclean livestock or the carcass of an unclean swarming thing, and it was hidden from him, he has become unclean and is guilty.
3 Or when he touches human uncleanness, of whatever kind the uncleanness by which one becomes unclean, and it was hidden from him, but afterward he comes to know it, he is guilty.
4 Or when a person swears, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips, to do harm or to do good, in any matter about which a man may speak thoughtlessly in an oath, and it was hidden from him, but afterward he comes to know it, he is guilty in one of these.
5 So when he becomes guilty in one of these matters, he shall confess the way in which he has sinned,
6 and bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female from the flock, a ewe lamb or a she-goat, as a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
7 "If his means do not reach to a lamb, he shall bring to the LORD as his guilt offering for the sin he has committed two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one as a sin offering and one as a burnt offering.
8 He is to bring them to the priest, who shall present first the one for the sin offering. He shall pinch its head at the neck but not sever it.
9 He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the wall of the altar, and the remainder of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.
10 The second he shall make a burnt offering according to the ordinance. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.
11 "If his means do not reach to two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then as his offering for his sin he shall bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He must not put oil on it or set frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.
12 He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall scoop out a handful of it as its memorial portion and send it up in smoke on the altar, on top of the food offerings of the LORD; it is a sin offering.
13 Thus the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the sin he has committed in any one of these matters, and he will be forgiven. The rest shall belong to the priest, like the grain offering."
14 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
15 "When a person acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally in regard to the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring as his guilt offering to the LORD an unblemished ram from the flock, valued in silver shekels by your assessment, according to the sanctuary shekel, as a guilt offering.
16 Whatever he has sinned in regard to the holy thing he shall make good, adding a fifth of its value, and give it to the priest. The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.
17 "If a person sins and does any of the things that the LORD has commanded not to be done, even though he did not know it, he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.
18 He shall bring to the priest an unblemished ram from the flock, by your assessment, as a guilt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the error he committed without knowing it, and he will be forgiven.
19 It is a guilt offering; he is indeed guilty before the LORD."