15. The elders of the congregation are to lay their hands on the head of the bull before Adonai, and the bull is to be slaughtered before Adonai.
16. The anointed kohen shall bring some of the blood from the bull to the Tent of Meeting.
17. Then the kohen is to dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Adonai, before the curtain.
18. He is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before Adonai, in the Tent of Meeting, and the rest of the blood he is to pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
19. He is to take all its fat from it, and burn it up as smoke on the altar.
20. He is also to do with the bull just as he did with the bull of the sin offering—he must do the same with it. So the kohen should make atonement for them—and they will be forgiven.
21. Then he is to carry the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the community.
22. “When a ruler sins and unwittingly does one of the mitzvot of Adonai his God that are not to be done, then he is guilty.
23. When his sin that he committed is made known to him, he is to bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish.