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Leviticus 4:3-15 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

3. If the priest that is anointed shall sin, making the people to offend, he shall offer to the Lord for his sin a calf without blemish.

4. And he shall bring it to the door of the testimony before the Lord, and shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall sacrifice it to the Lord.

5. He shall take also of the blood of the calf, and carry it into the tabernacle of the testimony.

6. And having dipped his finger in the blood, he shall sprinkle with it seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.

7. And he shall put some of the same blood upon the horns of the altar of the sweet incense most acceptable to the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the testimony. And he shall pour all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar of holocaust in the entry of the tabernacle.

8. And he shall take off the fat of the calf for the sin offering, as well that which covereth the entrails, as all the inwards:

9. The two little kidneys, and the caul that is upon them, which is by the hanks, and the fat of the liver with the little kidneys,

10. As it is taken off from the calf of the sacrifice of peace offerings, and he shall burn them upon the altar of holocaust.

11. But the skin and all the flesh with the head and the feet and the bowels and the dung,

12. And the rest of the body he shall carry forth without the camp into a clean place where the ashes are wont to be poured out, and he shall burn them upon a pile of wood, they shall be burnt in the place where the ashes are poured out.

13. And if all the multitude of Israel shall be ignorant, and through ignorance shall do that which is against the commandment of the Lord,

14. And afterwards shall understand their sin, they shall offer for their sin a calf, and shall bring it to the door of the tabernacle.

15. And the ancients of the people shall put their hands upon the head thereof before the Lord. And the calf being immolated in the sight of the Lord,

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