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Leviticus 5:11“‘When a person sins in that he hears a public curse against one who fails to testify and he is a witness (he either saw or knew what had happened ) and he does not make it known, then he will bear his punishment for iniquity.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 5:17Prov 29:24Lev 19:8Lev 7:18Matt 26:631 Kgs 8:31Ezek 18:4Isa 53:11Lev 17:16Lev 20:17
Leviticus 5:22Or when there is a person who touches anything ceremonially unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, he has become unclean and is guilty;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 5:17Deut 14:8Hag 2:13Lev 11:11Lev 11:24-40Num 19:11-162 Cor 6:17Isa 52:11Lev 4:13Lev 5:4
Leviticus 5:33or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, even if he did not realize it, but he has later come to know it and is guilty;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 12:1-8Lev 15:1-33Num 19:11-16Lev 22:4-6
Leviticus 5:44or when a person swears an oath, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips, whether to do evil or to do good, with regard to anything which the individual might speak thoughtlessly in an oath, even if he did not realize it, but he has later come to know it and is guilty with regard to one of these oaths —Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Eccl 5:2-6Judg 11:31Acts 23:12Mark 6:231 Sam 25:22Num 30:81 Sam 1:111 Sam 14:24-281 Sam 24:21-222 Kgs 6:31
Leviticus 5:55when an individual becomes guilty with regard to one of these things he must confess how he has sinned,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Prov 28:13Num 5:7Lev 26:40Lev 16:21Ezra 10:11-12Rom 10:101 John 1:8-10Dan 9:4Jer 3:13Josh 7:19
Leviticus 5:66and he must bring his penalty for guilt to the Lord for his sin that he has committed—a female from the flock, whether a female sheep or a female goat, for a sin offering. So the priest will make atonement on his behalf for his sin.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 4:28Lev 4:32Ezek 40:39Ezek 42:13Lev 14:12-13Lev 19:21-22Lev 4:20Lev 6:6Lev 7:1-7Num 6:12
Leviticus 5:77“‘If he cannot afford an animal from the flock, he must bring his penalty for guilt for his sin that he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, to the Lord, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 12:8Lev 14:21-222 Cor 8:12Heb 10:6-10Lev 14:31Lev 5:8-9Matt 10:16Matt 3:16Jas 2:5-6Lev 1:14-15
Leviticus 5:88He must bring them to the priest and present first the one that is for a sin offering. The priest must pinch its head at the nape of its neck, but must not sever the head from the body.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 1:15Lev 1:171 Pet 3:18Rom 4:25
Leviticus 5:99Then he must sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the wall of the altar, and the remainder of the blood must be squeezed out at the base of the altar—it is a sin offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 4:18Lev 4:30Lev 4:34Lev 4:7Lev 4:25Heb 12:24Heb 2:10Isa 42:21Exod 12:22-23Lev 1:15
Leviticus 5:1010The second bird he must make a burnt offering according to the standard regulation. So the priest will make atonement on behalf of this person for his sin which he has committed, and he will be forgiven.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 1:14-17Lev 4:26Lev 4:201 John 2:2Eph 5:2Jas 5:15Lev 4:31Lev 4:35Lev 5:13Lev 5:16
Leviticus 5:1111“‘If he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he must bring as his offering for his sin which he has committed a tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour for a sin offering. He must not place olive oil on it, and he must not put frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Num 5:15Lev 2:1-2Exod 16:18Exod 16:36Isa 53:2-10Lev 2:15-16Lev 2:4-5Lev 5:12Lev 5:6Lev 5:9
Leviticus 5:1212He must bring it to the priest, and the priest must scoop out from it a handful as its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar on top of the other gifts of the Lord —it is a sin offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 2:9Lev 4:35Lev 2:2Acts 10:4Eph 5:2Lev 1:13Lev 1:17Lev 1:9Lev 2:16Lev 3:11
Leviticus 5:1313So the priest will make atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has committed by doing one of these things, and he will be forgiven. The remainder of the offering will belong to the priest like the grain offering.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 2:3Lev 4:261 Cor 9:131 Sam 2:28Hos 4:8Lev 2:10Lev 4:20Lev 4:31Lev 5:6Lev 7:6
Leviticus 5:1414Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 5:1515“When a person commits a trespass and sins by straying unintentionally from the regulations about the Lord ’s holy things, then he must bring his penalty for guilt to the Lord, a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver shekels according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel, for a guilt offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 30:13Ezra 10:19Lev 4:2Deut 15:19-20Lev 22:1-16Lev 27:9-33Lev 6:6Lev 7:1Lev 7:6Deut 12:26
Leviticus 5:1616And whatever holy thing he violated he must restore and must add one-fifth to it and give it to the priest. So the priest will make atonement on his behalf with the guilt-offering ram and he will be forgiven.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 22:14Num 5:7Lev 27:13Lev 27:15Lev 27:31Lev 6:4-5Lev 27:27Lev 4:26Lev 5:101 John 2:1-2
Leviticus 5:1717“If a person sins and violates any of the Lord ’s commandments that must not be violated (although he did not know it at the time, but later realizes he is guilty), then he will bear his punishment for iniquityCopy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 4:27Lev 4:13Lev 4:2-4Ps 19:12Lev 4:22Lev 5:15Lev 5:1-2Luke 12:48
Leviticus 5:1818and must bring a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver shekels, for a guilt offering to the priest. So the priest will make atonement on his behalf for his error that he committed (although he himself had not known it) and he will be forgiven.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 5:15-161 Tim 2:5-6Lev 1:4Lev 4:20Lev 6:6-7
Leviticus 5:1919It is a guilt offering; he was surely guilty before the Lord.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:2 Cor 5:19-21Ezra 10:2Mal 3:8Ps 51:4
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