1   If a person hears a solemn adjuration to give evidence as a witness to something he has seen or heard and does not declare what he knows, he commits a sin and must accept responsibility.

2   If a person touches anything unclean, such as the dead body of an unclean animal, 3   whether wild or domestic, or of an unclean reptile, ^note or if he touches anything unclean in a man, whatever that uncleanness may be, and it is concealed by him although he is aware of it, he shall incur guilt. 4   Or if a person rashly utters an oath to do something evil or good, in any matter in which such a man may swear a rash oath, and it is concealed by him although he is aware of it, he shall in either case incur guilt. 5   Whenever a man incurs guilt in any of these cases and confesses how he has sinned therein, he shall bring to the Lord, 6   as his penalty for the sin that he has committed, a female of the flock, either a ewe or a she-goat, as a sin-offering, and the priest shall make expiation for him on account of his sin which he has committed, and he shall be pardoned. ^note

7   But if he cannot afford as much as a young animal, he shall bring to the Lord for the sin ^note he has committed two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, one for a sin-offering and the other for a whole-offering. 8   He shall bring them to the priest, and present first the one intended for the sin-offering. 9   He shall wrench its head back without severing it. He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the victim against the side of the altar, and what is left of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar: it is a sin-offering. 10   He shall deal with the second bird as a whole-offering according to custom, and the priest shall make expiation for the sin the man has committed, and it shall be forgiven him.

Laws concerning offerings and sacrifices

11   If the man cannot afford two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, for his sin he shall bring as his offering a tenth of an ephah of flour, as a sin-offering. He shall add no oil to it nor put frankincense on it, because it is a sin-offering. 12   He shall bring it to the priest, who shall scoop up a handful from it as a token and burn it on the altar on the food-offerings to the Lord: it is a sin-offering. 13   The priest shall make expiation for the sin the man has committed in any one of these cases, and it shall be forgiven him. The remainder ^note belongs to the priest, as with the grain-offering.

14    15   The Lord spoke to Moses and said: When any person commits an offence by inadvertently defaulting in dues sacred to the Lord, he shall bring as his guilt-offering to the Lord a ram without blemish from the flock, the value to be determined by you in silver shekels according to the sacred standard, for a guilt-offering; 16   he shall make good his default in sacred dues, adding one fifth. He shall give it to the priest, who shall make expiation for his sin with the ram of the guilt-offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

17   If and when any person sins unwittingly and does what is forbidden by any commandment of the Lord, thereby incurring guilt, he must accept responsibility. 18   He shall bring to the priest as a guilt-offering a ram without blemish from the flock, valued by you, and the priest shall make expiation for the error into which he has unwittingly fallen, and it shall be forgiven him. 19   It is a guilt-offering; he has been guilty of an offence against the Lord.

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