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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Leviticus 5 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/leviticus/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/leviticus/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Leviticus 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/4.htm" title="Leviticus 4">◄</a> Leviticus 5 <a href="../leviticus/6.htm" title="Leviticus 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/leviticus/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Laws of Public Testimony</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“If someone sins because he has failed to testify after receiving notice<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="5:1 Lit. after having heard">a</a></span> to testify as a witness regarding what he has observed or learned, he is to be held responsible.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="5:1 Lit. guilty">b</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">Offerings for Uncleanness</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“When a person has touched a ceremonially unclean thing inadvertently,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="5:2 Lit. thing and it was hidden from him; and so throughout the chapter">c</a></span> such as the carcass of an unclean animal, or some unclean creeping thing, he will be unclean and guilty nevertheless. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When he inadvertently touches the uncleanness of a human being, whatever his uncleanness that made him unclean may be, when he himself comes to know about it, he will be guilty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When a person has sworn inadvertently by what he has said, whether for evil or good, whatever it was that the person spoke, when he comes to understand what he said, he will incur guilt by one of these things. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When a person is guilty of one of these things, then he is to confess<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="5:5 Or acknowledge">d</a></span> whatever sin it was <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and bring compensation to the LORD for the guilt that he committed: a female from the flock—whether a lamb or goat—for a sin offering. Then the priest is to make atonement for him.”</p> <p class="heading">Inexpensive Offering Alternatives</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“If he can’t afford a goat, then he is to bring to the LORD for his sin offering two turtledoves or two young doves:<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="5:7 Lit. or offspring of a dove">e</a></span> one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He is to bring them to the priest, who will offer a sin offering first. He is to wring off its head without separating it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then he is to sprinkle some of the blood from the sin offering on the sidewall of the altar. Now as to the remainder of the blood, he is to pour it out at the base of the altar for a sin offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>With respect to the second offering, he is to prepare it as a burnt offering, according to the approved procedure.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="5:10 Lit. judgment">f</a></span> The priest is to make atonement for him on account of his sin that he had committed. Then it will be forgiven him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“If he can’t afford<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="5:11 Lit. if his hands cannot reach">g</a></span> two turtledoves or two young doves, then he is to bring as his offering a tenth of an ephah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="5:11 I.e., an ephah was equal to from /3 to /4 of a bushel">h</a></span> of fine flour as a sin offering for what he has committed. He is to put no olive oil or frankincense on it, since it’s a sin offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He is to bring it to the priest. The priest is to take a handful as a memorial and burn it on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD. It’s a sin offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The priest will make atonement for him, on account of the sin that he had committed in any of these things and it will be forgiven him. As far as the priest is concerned, it will be a meal offering.”</p> <p class="heading">Offerings for Inadvertent Sins</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The LORD told Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“When a person commits a truly treacherous act and sins inadvertently concerning the sacred things of the LORD, then he is to bring a trespass offering to the LORD from the flock as compensation for his guilt. It is to be a ram without defect, estimated as to its value in silver shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He is to compensate for whatever sin he had committed concerning the sacred things of the LORD, add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest. The priest is to make atonement for him with the ram as a sin offering and he’ll be forgiven.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“If a person sins and does what the LORD commanded is not to be done, and if he didn’t know that he had sinned, then he will be guilty nevertheless.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="5:17 Lit. he will bear his sin">i</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He is to bring from the flock to the priest a ram without defect, estimated as to its value in silver shekels, as a guilt offering. Then the priest is to make atonement for him concerning his inadvertent act that he committed through ignorance, and it will be forgiven him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>It’s a sin offering for his guilt in the LORD’s presence.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 5:1 Lit. <i>after having heard</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 5:1 Lit. <i>guilty</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 5:2 Lit. <i>thing and it was hidden from him</i>; and so throughout the chapter<br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 5:5 Or <i>acknowledge</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 5:7 Lit. <i>or offspring of a dove</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 5:10 Lit.<i> judgment</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 5:11 Lit. <i>if his hands cannot reach</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 5:11 I.e., an ephah was equal to from /3 to /4 of a bushel<br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 5:17 Lit. <i>he will bear his sin</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../leviticus/4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../leviticus/6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/leviticus/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>