CHAPTER 4

¹And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the Israelites, saying, ‘Should a person offend errantly in regard to any of the LORD’s commands that should not be done and he do one of these, ³if the anointed priest should offend, incurring guilt for the people, he shall bring forward for his offense that he has committed an unblemished bull from the herd for the LORD as an offense offering. ⁴And he shall bring the bull to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before the LORD and lay his hand on the head of the bull and slaughter the bull before the LORD. ⁵And the anointed priest shall take from the blood of the bull and bring it to the Tent of Meeting. ⁶And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle from the blood seven times before the LORD against the covering of the shrine. ⁷And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of aromatic incense before the LORD, which is in the Tent of Meeting, and all the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the burnt-offering altar which is at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. ⁸And all the fat of the bull of offense offering, he shall set aside from it the fat covering the innards and all the fat that is on the innards. ⁹The two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the sinews, and the lobe on the liver, together with the kidneys, he shall take away, ¹⁰as it is set aside from the communion-sacrifice bull. And the priest shall turn them to smoke on the burnt-offering altar, ¹¹and the hide of the bull together with its head and together with its shanks and its innards and its dung. ¹²And he shall take the whole bull out beyond the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and he shall burn it on wood with fire, on the ash heap it shall be burned. ¹³And if all the community of Israel should err, and the thing be hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do one of all the LORD’s commands that should not be done, and they bear guilt, ¹⁴and the offense that they committed become known, the assembly shall bring forward a bull from the herd as an offense offering, and they shall bring it before the Tent of Meeting. ¹⁵And the elders of the community shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD, and the bull shall be slaughtered before the LORD. ¹⁶And the anointed priest shall bring from the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting. ¹⁷And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle from the blood seven times before the LORD against the covering of the shrine. ¹⁸And some of the blood he shall put on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD, which is in the Tent of Meeting, and all the blood he shall pour out at the base of the burnt-offering altar, which is at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. ¹⁹And he shall set aside all the fat from the bull and turn it to smoke on the altar. ²⁰And he shall do to the bull as he did to the offense-offering bull, so shall it be done to it, and the priest shall atone for them and it shall be forgiven them. ²¹And he shall take the bull out beyond the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is an offense offering of the assembly. ²²When a chieftain offends and does one of all the commands of the LORD his God that should not be done, in errance, and he bears guilt, ²³or his offense that he committed is made known to him, he shall bring his offering, an unblemished male goat. ²⁴And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD. It is an offense offering. ²⁵And the priest shall take from the blood of the offense offering on his finger and place it on the horns of the burnt-offering altar, and he shall pour out its blood at the base of the burnt-offering altar. ²⁶And all its fat he shall turn to smoke on the altar like the fat of the communion sacrifice, and the priest shall atone for him for his offense, and it shall be forgiven him. ²⁷And if a single person from the common people should offend errantly in doing one of the LORD’s commands that should not be done, and bear guilt, ²⁸or his offense that he committed is made known to him, he shall bring his offering, an unblemished female goat, for his offense which he committed. ²⁹And he shall lay his hand on the head of the offense offering and slaughter the offense offering in the place of the burnt offering. ³⁰And the priest shall take from its blood on his finger and place it on the horns of the burnt-offering altar, and he shall pour out all its blood at the base of the altar. ³¹And all its fat he shall take away, as the fat was taken away from the communion sacrifice, and the priest shall turn it to smoke on the altar as a fragrant odor to the LORD, and the priest shall atone for him and it shall be forgiven him. ³²And if he brings a sheep as his offering for an offense, an unblemished female he shall bring it. ³³And he shall lay his hand on the head of the offense offering and slaughter it as an offense offering in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered. ³⁴And the priest shall take from the blood of the offense offering on his finger and place it on the horns of the altar, and all its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar. ³⁵And all its fat he shall take away as the fat of the sheep is taken away from the communion sacrifice, and the priest shall turn it to smoke together with the fire offerings of the LORD, and the priest shall atone for him, for his offense that he committed, and it shall be forgiven him.’”