Numbers 15:22

“If anyone sins, doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,

“ ‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

“ ‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;

All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.

He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

“If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding Yahweh’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.

This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house.

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.

Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.

“ ‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,

“ ‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,

All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.

“ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’ ”

He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong regarding the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.

The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.”

That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is prepared in the pan and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it.

The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.

The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

“Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty,

and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering, one ram without defect for peace offerings,

One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’ ”

You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.

They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.

Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.

This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—

All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.

Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

“A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”