Leviticus 5:13
Good News Translation
In this way the priest shall offer the sacrifice for your sin, and you will be forgiven. The rest of the flour belongs to the priest, just as in the case of a grain offering.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus the priest shall make atonement on your behalf for whichever of these sins you have committed, and you shall be forgiven. Like the grain offering, the rest shall be for the priest.

Contemporary English Version
By offering this sacrifice, the priest pays the price for any of these sins you may have committed. The priest gets to keep the rest of the flour, just as he does with grain sacrifices.

New American Bible
Thus the priest shall make atonement on the person’s behalf for the wrong committed in any of the above cases, so that the individual may be forgiven. The rest of the offering, like the grain offering, shall belong to the priest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Praying for him and making atonement. But the part that is left, he himself shall have for a gift.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Praying for him and making atonement. But the part that is left, he himself shall have for a gift.

the priest

Leviticus 5:6 And offer of the flocks an ewe lamb, or a she goat, and the priest shall pray for him and for his sin.

Leviticus 4:20,26,31 Doing so with this calf, as he did also with that before. And the priest praying for them, the Lord will be merciful unto them. . . .

shall be

Leviticus 2:3,10 And the remnant of the sacrifice shall be Aaron's, and his sons', holy of holies of the offerings of the Lord. . . .

Leviticus 7:6 Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.

1 Samuel 2:28 And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, and burn incense to me, and to wear the ephod before me: and I gave to thy father's house of all the sacrifices of the children of Israel.

Hosea 4:8 They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.

1 Corinthians 9:13 Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar?

Context
Sins Requiring a Sin Offering
12And he shall deliver it to the priest, who shall take a handful thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar for a memorial of him that offered it: 13Praying for him and making atonement. But the part that is left, he himself shall have for a gift.
Cross References
Leviticus 2:3
And the remnant of the sacrifice shall be Aaron's, and his sons', holy of holies of the offerings of the Lord.

Leviticus 4:26
But the fat he shall burn upon it, as is wont to be done with the victims of peace offerings. And the priest shall pray for him, and for his sin: and it shall be forgiven him.

Leviticus 5:4
The person that sweareth, and uttereth with his lips, that he would do either evil or good, and bindeth the same with an oath, and his word: and having forgotten it afterwards understandeth his offence,

Leviticus 5:5
Let him do penance for his sin:

Leviticus 5:10
And the other he shall burn for a holocaust, as is wont to be done. And the priest shall pray for him, and for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

Leviticus 5:12
And he shall deliver it to the priest, who shall take a handful thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar for a memorial of him that offered it:

Leviticus 5:14
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Leviticus 5:12
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