1 Se alguém recusar dar testemunho respeitante a um acto mau de que tenha ouvido falar ou que tenha visto, será culpado.2 Se alguém tocar nalguma coisa considerada ritualmente impura - tal como o corpo morto de um animal proibido para alimento, seja selvagem seja doméstico, ou o corpo dalguns insectos proibidos - será imundo e culpado, ainda que o tenha feito sem saber.3 Ou se tocar alguma impureza humana de qualquer espécie, torna-se culpado assim que se der conta do que fez.4 Se alguém fizer um juramento, seja para o bem ou para o mal, e quando chegar a ter consciência de quanto foi irreflectido ao pronunciar tal coisa, será culpado.5 Em qualquer destes casos a pessoa culpada deverá confessar o seu pecado, e trazer a sua oferta em sacrifício de culpa ao Senhor: um cordeiro fêmea ou uma cabra; o sacerdote fará expiação por ela com respeito a este pecado.7 Se for demasiado pobre para trazer ao Senhor um cordeiro, deverá trazer então duas rolas ou dois pombinhos como oferta de culpa. O sacerdote oferecerá como sacrifício pelo pecado qualquer deles que lhe foi traduzido primeiro, torcendo-lhe o pescoço, mas sem separar a cabeça do corpo. Depois aspergirá um pouco do sangue sobre o lado do altar, derramando o resto na base; esta é a oferta pelo pecado. O segundo pássaro será oferecido como holocausto, conforme o preceito habitual que já foi indicado. É desta maneira que o sacerdote fará expiação pelo seu pecado e ele será perdoado.11 Se for tão pobre que não possa trazer nem rola nem pombinho, trará três litros de farinha fina. Mas não deverá amassá-la com azeite, nem pôr-lhe incenso, porque se trata de uma oferta pelo pecado. Deverá trazê-la ao sacerdote, e este tomará um punhado como porção representativa, queimando-a no altar tal como qualquer outra oferta feita a Jeová pelo fogo. Esta será a oferta pelo seu pecado. É desta maneira que o sacerdote fará expiação por ele, por qualquer pecado desta espécie, e será perdoado. O resto da farinha pertence ao sacerdote, tal como aconteceu com a oferta de cereais.14 E o Senhor disse a Moisés:15 Se alguém pecar, sem ser intencionalmente, transgredindo por ignorância das coisas sagradas do Senhor, então deverá trazer um carneiro, sem defeito físico, no valor daquilo que estimares ter sido o montante da transgressão em causa ; essa será a oferta que pela sua culpa fará ao Senhor. E restituirá aquilo que defraudou das coisas sagradas, pagando o que deve, acrescido dum quinto. Deverá trazê-lo ao sacerdote que fará expiação por ele com o carneiro de oferta de culpa, e será perdoado.17 Alguém que desobedece a qualquer lei de Deus, mesmo sem ter tido consciência disso, será culpado, e deverá trazer o seu sacrifício dum valor que estimares ter sido o da transgressão em causa. Este sacrifício será um carneiro sem defeito, que será trazido ao sacerdote como uma oferta de culpa; com ele o sacerdote fará o resgate por essa pessoa, para que seja perdoado por aquilo que tiver feito sem o saber. Deverá ser oferecido como uma oferta de culpa, porque sem dúvida que se tornou culpado perante o Senhor.

1 And if a soul shall sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and be a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he doth not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.2 Or if a soul shall touch any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast, or a carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping animals, and it shall be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.3 Or if he shall touch the uncleanness of man, whatever uncleanness it may be that a man shall be defiled with, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.4 Or if a soul shall swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it may be, that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:6 And he shall bring his trespass-offering to the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.7 And if he shall not be able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass which he hath committed, two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to the LORD; one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering.8 And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin-offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin-offering.10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt-offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.11 But if he shall not be able to bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons; then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense upon it: for it is a sin-offering.12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial of it, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD: it is a sin-offering.13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat-offering.14 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,15 If a soul shall commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass to the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass-offering:16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add to it the fifth part, and give it to the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, and it shall be forgiven him.17 And if a soul shall sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he knew it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass-offering to the priest; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and knew it not, and it shall be forgiven him.19 It is a trespass-offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the LORD.20 \6:1\And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,21 \6:2\If a soul shall sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie to his neighbor, in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbor;22 \6:3\Or hath found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:23 \6:4\Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took by force, or the thing which he obtained by deceit, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,24 \6:5\Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add to it the fifth part more, and give it to him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass-offering.25 \6:6\And he shall bring his trespass-offering to the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass-offering, to the priest:26 \6:7\And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.