1. Sin offerings are required in the following cases.If someone is officially summoned to give evidence in court and does not give information about something he has seen or heard, he must suffer the consequences.
2. If someone unintentionally touches anything ritually unclean, such as a dead animal, he is unclean and guilty as soon as he realizes what he has done.
3. If someone unintentionally touches anything of human origin that is unclean, whatever it may be, he is guilty as soon as he realizes what he has done.
4. If someone makes a careless vow, no matter what it is about, he is guilty as soon as he realizes what he has done.
5. When a person is guilty, he must confess the sin,
6. and as the penalty for his sin he must bring to the Lord a female sheep or goat as an offering. The priest shall offer the sacrifice for the man's sin.
7. If a man cannot afford a sheep or a goat, he shall bring to the Lord as the payment for his sin two doves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
8. He shall bring them to the priest, who will first offer the bird for the sin offering. He will break its neck without pulling off its head
9. and sprinkle some of its blood against the side of the altar. The rest of the blood will be drained out at the base of the altar. This is an offering to take away sin.