| Chapter 5 |
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And if anyone does wrong by saying nothing when he is put under oath as a
witness of something he has seen or had knowledge of, then he will be
responsible: |
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If anyone becomes unclean through touching unconsciously some unclean
thing, such as the dead body of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or of any
unclean animal which goes flat on the earth, he will be responsible: |
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Or if he becomes unclean through touching unconsciously any unclean thing
of man, whatever it may be, when it is made clear to him he will be responsible: |
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Or if anyone, without thought, takes an oath to do evil or to do good,
whatever he says without thought, with an oath, having no knowledge of what he
is doing; when it becomes clear to him, he will be responsible for any of these
things. |
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And whoever is responsible for any such sin, let him make a statement
openly of his wrongdoing; |
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And take to the Lord the offering for the wrong which he has done, a
female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering, and the priest will
take away his sin. |
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And if he has not money enough for a lamb, then let him give, for his
offering to the Lord, two doves or two young pigeons; one for a sin-offering and
one for a burned offering. |
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And let him take them to the priest, who will first give the
sin-offering, twisting off its head from its neck, but not cutting it in two; |
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And he is to put drops of the blood of the offering on the side of the
altar, and the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar;
it is a sin-offering. |
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And the second is for a burned offering, in agreement with the law; and
the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness. |
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But if he has not enough money for two doves or two young pigeons, then
let him give, for the sin he has done, the tenth part of an ephah of the best
meal, for a sin-offering; let him put no oil on it, and no perfume, for it is a
sin-offering. |
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And let him come to the priest with it, and the priest will take some of
it in his hand, to be burned on the altar as a sign, among the offerings of the
Lord made by fire: it is a sin-offering. |
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And the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness: and
the rest of the offering will be the priest's, in the same way as the meal
offering. |
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And the Lord said to Moses, |
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If anyone is untrue, sinning in error in connection with the holy things
of the Lord, let him take his offering to the Lord, a male sheep from the flock,
without any mark, of the value fixed by you in silver by shekels, by the scale
of the holy place. |
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And he is to make payment to the priest for what he has done wrong in
relation to the holy thing, together with a fifth part of its value in addition;
and the priest will take away his sin by the sheep of his offering, and he will
have forgiveness. |
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And if anyone does wrong, and does any of the things which the Lord has
given orders are not to be done, though he has no knowledge of it, still he is
in the wrong and he is responsible. |
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Let him come to the priest with a sheep, a male without any mark out of
the flock, of the value fixed by you, as an offering for his error; and the
priest will take away the sin which he did in error, and he will have
forgiveness. |
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It is an offering for his error: he is certainly responsible before the
Lord. |
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\6:1\And the Lord said to Moses, |
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\6:2\If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to
his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given
for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his
neighbour, |
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\6:3\Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has
come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things, |
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\6:4\Causing sin to come on him, then he will have to give back the thing
he took by force or got by cruel acts, or the goods which were put in his care
or the thing he came on by chance, |
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\6:5\Or anything about which he took a false oath; he will have to give
it all back, with the addition of a fifth of its value, to him whose property it
is, when he has been judged to be in the wrong. |
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\6:6\Then let him take to the Lord the offering for his wrongdoing;
giving to the priest for his offering, a male sheep from the flock, without any
mark, of the value fixed by you: |
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\6:7\And the priest will take away his sin from before the Lord, and he
will have forgiveness for whatever crime he has done |