15. The elders of the community are to lay their hands on the bull’s head before the Lord and it is to be slaughtered before the Lord.
16. The anointed priest will bring some of the bull’s blood into the tent of meeting.
17. The priest is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord in front of the veil.
18. He is to apply some of the blood to the horns of the altar that is before the Lord in the tent of meeting. He must pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
19. He is to remove all the fat from it and burn it on the altar.
20. He is to offer this bull just as he did with the bull in the sin offering; he will offer it the same way. So the priest will make atonement on their behalf, and they will be forgiven.
21. Then he will bring the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
22. “When a leader sins and unintentionally violates any of the commands of the Lord his God by doing what is prohibited, and incurs guilt,
23. or someone informs him about the sin he has committed, he is to bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.
24. He is to lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the Lord. It is a sin offering.
25. Then the priest must take some of the blood from the sin offering with his finger and apply it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering. The rest of its blood he must pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
26. He must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the fellowship sacrifice. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for that person’s sin, and he will be forgiven.
27. “Now if any of the common people sins unintentionally by violating one of the Lord’s commands, does what is prohibited, and incurs guilt,
28. or if someone informs him about the sin he has committed, then he is to bring an unblemished female goat as his offering for the sin that he has committed.