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and the priest shall make atonement on your behalf for your sin.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>But if you cannot afford a sheep, you shall bring to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, as your penalty for the sin that you have committed, two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>You shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering, wringing its head at the nape without severing it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>And the second he shall offer for a burnt offering according to the regulation. Thus the priest shall make atonement on your behalf for the sin that you have committed, and you shall be forgiven.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>But if you cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, you shall bring as your offering for the sin that you have committed one-tenth of an ephah of choice flour for a sin offering; you shall not put oil on it or lay frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>You shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall scoop up a handful of it as its memorial portion, and turn this into smoke on the altar, with the offerings by fire to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; it is a sin offering. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>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.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Offerings with Restitution</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>When any of you commit a trespass and sin unintentionally in any of the holy things of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, you shall bring, as your guilt offering to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, a ram without blemish from the flock, convertible into silver by the sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>And you shall make restitution for the holy thing in which you were remiss, and shall add one-fifth to it and give it to the priest. The priest shall make atonement on your behalf with the ram of the guilt offering, and you shall be forgiven.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>If any of you sin without knowing it, doing any of the things that by the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>’s commandments ought not to be done, you have incurred guilt, and are subject to punishment. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>You shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish from the flock, or the equivalent, as a guilt offering; and the priest shall make atonement on your behalf for the error that you committed unintentionally, and you shall be forgiven. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>It is a guilt offering; you have incurred guilt before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></p> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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