God lists specific wrongs that require a sin offering, such as failing to testify and touching something unclean, and gives instructions for the offering, with a lesser one for those who are poor.
1 And if a soul sin , and hear the voice of swearing , and is a witness , whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity .
2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing , whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast , or a carcase of unclean cattle , or the carcase of unclean creeping things , and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean , and guilty .
3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man , whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty .
4 Or if a soul swear , pronouncing with his lips to do evil , or to do good , whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath , and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:
6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned , a female from the flock , a lamb or a kid of the goats , for a sin offering ; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin .
7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb , then he shall bring for his trespass , which he hath committed , two turtledoves , or two young pigeons , unto the LORD ; one for a sin offering , and the other for a burnt offering .
8 And he shall bring them unto the priest , who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first , and wring off his head from his neck , but shall not divide it asunder :
9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar ; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar : it is a sin offering .
10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering , according to the manner : and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned , and it shall be forgiven him.
11 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves , or two young pigeons , then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering ; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering .
12 Then shall he bring it to the priest , and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar , according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD : it is a sin offering .
13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's , as a meat offering .
14 And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying ,
15 If a soul commit a trespass , and sin through ignorance , in the holy things of the LORD ; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks , with thy estimation by shekels of silver , after the shekel of the sanctuary , for a trespass offering :
16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing , and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest : and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering , and it shall be forgiven him.
17 And if a soul sin , and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD ; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty , and shall bear his iniquity .
18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock , with thy estimation , for a trespass offering , unto the priest : and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.
19 It is a trespass offering : he hath certainly trespassed against the LORD .