Leviticus 4:1-5 ▼

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Speak to the children of Israel, ‘If a person sins unintentionally in any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and commits any of them—

3 if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

4 He shall bring the bull to the doorway of the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, and shall lay his hand on the bull’s head [transferring symbolically his guilt to the sacrifice] and kill the bull before the LORD.

5 Then the anointed priest is to take some of the bull’s blood and bring it into the Tent of Meeting;