Leviticus
Chapter 5
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1When a person does an offense and hears the voice of a curse-oath, and he is a witness, or he has seen or come to know, if he does not tell it, he shall carry his guilt.
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Qol alah is the voice of a curse-oath, a spoken curse that binds a witness to speak. Avon is guilt, as in Exodus. He carries it.
2Or a person who touches any unclean thing, or the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean livestock animal, or the carcass of an unclean swarmer, and it was hidden from him, and he is unclean, and he becomes guilty,
3or when he touches human uncleanness, any uncleanness of his by which he becomes unclean, and it was hidden from him, and he comes to know it, and he becomes guilty,
4or a person who swears, speaking rashly with his lips, to do harm or to do good, anything that a person speaks rashly in an oath, and it was hidden from him, and he comes to know it, and he becomes guilty for one of these,
5when he becomes guilty for one of these, he shall confess what he did as an offense.
6He shall bring his guilt-payment to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. for his offense that he did: a female from the flock, a ewe lamb or a female goat, as an offense offering. The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for him from his offense.
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Asham in this verse is the payment for his guilt. The animal itself is an offense offering, a chatat. The ram called a guilt offering begins at verse 15.
7If his hand cannot reach enough for a sheep, he shall bring as his guilt-payment for what he did two turtledoves or two young pigeons to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., one for an offense offering and one for a whole offering.
8He shall bring them to the priest, and he shall bring first the one for the offense offering. He shall nip its head from the front of its neck, and he shall not divide it.
9He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the offense offering on the side of the altar, and what is left of the blood he shall drain at the base of the altar. It is an offense offering.
10The second he shall make a whole offering according to the rule. The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for him from his offense that he did, and he shall be forgiven.
11If his hand cannot reach two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he shall bring as his A gift brought close to God. for what he did a tenth of an A large measure for grain. of fine flour as an offense offering. He shall not put oil on it, and he shall not put A sweet-smelling tree sap burned as a gift. on it, because it is an offense offering.
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A tenth is a tenth of an ephah. The ephah is not converted, as in Exodus.
12He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take from it a handful as its memorial portion and turn it into smoke on the altar, on the food gifts of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. It is an offense offering.
13The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for him, for his offense that he did, for one of these, and he shall be forgiven. It shall be for the priest, like the grain gift.
14God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
15When a person commits a breach, and does an offense by mistake against the holy things of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., he shall bring his guilt offering to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.: a ram that is whole, from the flock, by your assessment in silver Weights of silver used as money., by the holy A weight of silver used as money., as a guilt offering.
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Ma’al ma’al is to commit a breach of trust. Asham here is a guilt offering, a ram. Be-erkekha is by your assessment. The shekel of the holy place is not converted into another coin.
16What he did wrong from the holy thing he shall pay back, and he shall add a fifth of it to it, and give it to the priest. The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.
17If a person does an offense and does one of any of the commands of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. that ought not to be done, and he did not know, and he becomes guilty, he shall carry his guilt.
18He shall bring a ram that is whole from the flock, by your assessment, as a guilt offering, to the priest. The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for him for his mistake that he made by mistake and did not know, and he shall be forgiven.
19It is a guilt offering. He has become guilty with guilt to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Ashom asham is the same root twice, an infinitive and a finite verb: becoming guilty, he became guilty. No extra object is added.