Leviticus Chapter 5

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Leviticus, chapter five. When anyone sins by hearing a public
call to testify about a matter he has seen or
knows something about, yet he does not speak up, then
he is considered guilty and must be punished. If anyone
has physical contact with some impure thing, such as the
carcass of a ritually unclean wild animal, domestic animal, or

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even an insect, even if he is unaware of the incident,
he has become ritually unclean and must accept the consequences.
If anyone has physical contact with some kind of human impurity,
regardless of the form of impurity it is, even if
he was unaware of it at the time, once he
realizes it, he must accept the consequences. If anyone speaks

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a careless vow to do something bad or something good,
or any careless vow for that matter, even if he
was unaware of it at the time, once he realizes
what he has done, he must accept the consequences. Regarding
any of these situations, When the guilty party realizes the offense,
he must confess it. He must present to me an
offering for his guilt as a remedy for the sin

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he has committed. This purification offering for sin must be
a female lamb or goat from the flock. The priest
will make atonement for the guilty person's sin. But if
the guilty person is poor and cannot afford to offer
a lamb, then he must bring to me two turtle
doves or two pigeons as a purification offering for sin.
One of these will act as the purification offering and

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the other will be a burnt offering. The guilty person
must take to the priest, and then the priest will
offer the purification offering for sin. First, he will wring
the bird's neck, but not separate its head from its body.
He will sprinkle some of its blood on the side
of the altar and drain the remaining blood out of
the base of the altar. This will be the ritual
for the purification offering for sin. Then the priest will

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conduct the ritual for the second sacrifice, the burnt offering.
In accordance with the regulations, the priest is to make
atonement to cover the sin of the guilty and the
guilty will be forgiven. If a person cannot afford to
offer two turtle doves or two young pigeons, he must
offer four pints of his finest flower as the purification

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offering for sin. He should not mix it with oil
or franken sense, because it is an offering for the
purification of sin. He will give it to the priest,
and the priest will take a handful of the flower
as a memorial portion and offer it up as smoke
along with the other fire offerings presented to me. This
flower is a purification offering for sin. This is how

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the priest will make atonement to cover the sin of
anyone guilty of these things, and the guilty will be forgiven.
The leftover flower belongs to the priest, as in the
grain offering. The Eternal One then told Moses about the
guilt offering. If anyone violates his covenant duties and unwittingly
commits a sin against any of my sacred objects, then

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that person must bring me an unblemished ram from the
flock or its value in silver. According to the sanctuary standards.
For a guilt offering, the guilty person must offer restitution
for the wrong he has committed against this sacred thing,
add one fifth of its value, and then give it
to the priest. The priest will then make atonement for

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him by offering the ram to cover his guilt, and
the guilty will be forgiven. If anyone commits a sin
by violating the directives I have given you, even if
he was unaware of it, once he realizes it, he
bears the guilt and must still accept the consequences. He
must bring to the priest an unblemished ram from the
flock or its equivalent value, as a guilt offering. The

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priest will then make atonement to cover the guilty person's
wrong which he unwittingly committed, and the guilty will be forgiven.
This is a guilt offering because the person was guilty
in my eyes.