15. The community elders will press their hands on the bull’s head before the Lord and then slaughter it before the Lord.
16. The anointed priest will take some of the bull’s blood into the meeting tent.
17. The priest will dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord toward the inner curtain.
18. Then he will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the Lord in the meeting tent. But he will pour all the rest of the blood out at the base of the altar of entirely burned offerings that is at the meeting tent’s entrance.
19. Then he will remove all the fat from it and completely burn it on the altar.
20. He will do the same with this bull as he did with the other bull for the purification offering; that is exactly what he must do. In this way, the priest will make reconciliation for them, and they will be forgiven.
21. Then the priest will take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as the first bull was burned. It is the purification offering for the assembly.
22. If a leader sins by unintentionally breaking any of the commands of the Lord his God, doing something that shouldn’t be done, and becomes guilty of sin—
23. once the sin that he committed is made known to him—he must bring as his offering a flawless male goat.
24. He will press his hand on the goat’s head. It will be slaughtered at the place where an entirely burned offering would be slaughtered before the Lord. It is a purification offering.
25. The priest will take some of the blood from the purification offering and, using his finger, will put it on the horns of the altar of entirely burned offerings. But he will pour the rest of the blood out at the base of the altar of entirely burned offerings.
26. He will completely burn all of its fat on the altar just as the fat of the communal sacrifice of well-being is burned. In this way the priest will make reconciliation for the leader to remove his sin, and he will be forgiven.
27. If any ordinary person sins unintentionally by breaking one of the Lord’s commands, doing something that shouldn’t be done, and becomes guilty of sin—
28. once the sin they committed is made known to them—they must bring as their offering a flawless female goat because of the sin that was committed.
29. They will press their hand on the head of the purification offering. It will be slaughtered at the place for the entirely burned offerings.
30. The priest will take some of its blood and, using his finger, will put it on the horns of the altar of entirely burned offerings. But he will pour all the rest of the blood out at the base of the altar.
31. He will remove all of its fat, just as the fat from a communal sacrifice of well-being is removed. Then the priest will completely burn it on the altar as a soothing smell to the Lord. In this way, the priest will make reconciliation for them, and they will be forgiven.
32. If you offer a sheep as a purification offering, it must be a flawless female.