Leviticus 4:1-18 ▼

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: When a soul sins in error from any of the commandments of YHWH which are not to be done, and he does from one of them—

3 if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, then he shall bring near for his sin that he has sinned a young bull, a son of the herd, unblemished, to YHWH for a sin offering.

4 And he shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before the face of YHWH, and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and he shall slaughter the bull before the face of YHWH.

5 And the anointed priest shall take from the blood of the bull, and he shall bring it to the Tent of Meeting,

6 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and he shall sprinkle from the blood seven times before the face of YHWH, the face of the veil of the Holy Place.

7 And the priest shall put from the blood on the horns of the altar of the incense of spices before the face of YHWH, which is in the Tent of Meeting. And all the blood of the bull he shall pour at the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

8 And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering, he shall lift up from it the fat that is covering over the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, that is on the flanks, and the lobe of the liver above the kidneys, which he shall remove,

10 as it is lifted up from the bull of the sacrifice of the peace offerings. And the priest shall burn them on the altar of the burnt offering.

11 And the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and its legs and its entrails and its dung—

12 and he shall carry all of the bull outside of the camp to a clean place, to the place of the pouring out of the ashes, and he shall burn it on wood with the fire. It shall be burned on the place of the pouring out of the ashes.

13 Now if the whole congregation of Israel errs, and the matter is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do one from all the commandments of YHWH which are not to be done, and they are guilty,

14 and the sin that they have sinned against it becomes known, then the assembly shall bring near a young bull, a son of the herd, for a sin offering, and they shall bring it before the face of the Tent of Meeting.

15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the face of YHWH, and the bull shall be slaughtered before the face of YHWH.

16 And the anointed priest shall bring from the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting.

17 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and he shall sprinkle it seven times before the face of YHWH, the face of the veil.

18 And from the blood he shall put on the horns of the altar that is before the face of YHWH, which is in the Tent of Meeting, and all the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of the burnt offering that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.