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Leviticus 4:13-23 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

13. “ ‘If Israel’s whole assembly did wrong unintentionally and the matter was concealed from the assembly’s eyes, and they acted against any of Yahweh’s commands that should not be violated, so that they incur guilt,

14. when the sin that they have committed against that command becomes known, the assembly shall present a young bull as a sin offering, and they shall bring it before the tent of assembly.

15. And the elders of the community shall place their hands on the bull’s head before Yahweh, and he shall slaughter the bull before Yahweh.

16. Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the bull’s blood to the tent of assembly,

17. and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and shall spatter it seven times before Yahweh in front of the curtain.

18. He must put some of the blood on the altar’s horns before Yahweh in the tent of assembly, and all the rest of the blood he must pour out on the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the tent of assembly’s entrance.

19. He must remove all its fat from it, and he shall turn it into smoke on the altar.

20. He shall do to the bull just as he did to the sin offering’s bull, so he must do to it. The priest shall make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.

21. He shall bring the rest of the bull outside the camp, and he shall burn it just as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.

22. “ ‘When a leader sins and commits an unintentional wrong against any of the commands of Yahweh his God that should not be violated, so that he incurs guilt,

23. or his sin he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring a male goat without defect as his offering.

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