Lexham English Bible

Leviticus 4:15-30 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

15. And the elders of the community shall place their hands on the bull’s head before Yahweh, and he shall slaughter the bull before Yahweh.

16. Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the bull’s blood to the tent of assembly,

17. and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and shall spatter it seven times before Yahweh in front of the curtain.

18. He must put some of the blood on the altar’s horns before Yahweh in the tent of assembly, and all the rest of the blood he must pour out on the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the tent of assembly’s entrance.

19. He must remove all its fat from it, and he shall turn it into smoke on the altar.

20. He shall do to the bull just as he did to the sin offering’s bull, so he must do to it. The priest shall make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.

21. He shall bring the rest of the bull outside the camp, and he shall burn it just as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.

22. “ ‘When a leader sins and commits an unintentional wrong against any of the commands of Yahweh his God that should not be violated, so that he incurs guilt,

23. or his sin he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring a male goat without defect as his offering.

24. He shall place his hand on the he-goat’s head and slaughter it in the place where he slaughtered the burnt offering before Yahweh; it is a sin offering.

25. The priest shall take some of the sin offering’s blood with his finger, and he shall put it on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering, and he must pour out the rest of its blood on the base of the altar of the burnt offering.

26. He must turn all of its fat into smoke on the altar like the fat of the fellowship offerings’ sacrifice, and the priest shall make atonement for him because of his sin, and he will be forgiven.

27. “ ‘If anyone of the people of the land sins by an unintentional wrong by violating one of Yahweh’s commands that should not be violated, so that he incurs guilt,

28. or his sin he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a female goat without defect as his offering for his sin that he committed.

29. He shall place his hand on the sin offering’s head and slaughter the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.

30. The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and he shall put it on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering, and he must pour out all the rest of its blood on the altar’s base.