Leviticus 4:21

4:21 He ¹  must bring the rest of the bull outside the camp ²  and burn it just as he burned the first bull – it is the sin offering of the assembly.

Leviticus 4:24

4:24 He must lay his hand on the head of the male goat and slaughter ³  it in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the Lord – it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 4:26

4:26 Then the priest ⁴  must offer all of its fat up in smoke on the altar like the fat of the peace offering sacrifice. So the priest will make atonement ⁵  on his behalf for ⁶  his sin and he will be forgiven. ⁷ 

Leviticus 5:8

5:8 He must bring them to the priest and present first the one that is for a sin offering. The priest ⁸  must pinch ⁹  its head at the nape of its neck, but must not sever the head from the body. ¹⁰ 

Leviticus 5:10

5:10 The second bird ¹¹  he must make a burnt offering according to the standard regulation. ¹²  So the priest will make atonement ¹³  on behalf of this person for ¹⁴  his sin which he has committed, and he will be forgiven. ¹⁵ 

Leviticus 6:17

6:17 It must not be baked with yeast. ¹⁶  I have given it as their portion from my gifts. It is most holy, ¹⁷  like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

Leviticus 6:30

6:30 But any sin offering from which some of its blood is brought into the Meeting Tent to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten. It must be burned up in the fire. ¹⁸ 

Leviticus 9:2

9:2 and said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both flawless, and present them before the Lord.

Leviticus 9:10

9:10 The fat and the kidneys and the protruding lobe of ¹⁹  the liver from the sin offering he offered up in smoke on the altar just as the Lord had commanded Moses,

Leviticus 9:15

The Offerings for the People

9:15 Then he presented the people’s offering. He took the sin offering male goat which was for the people, slaughtered it, and performed a decontamination rite with it ²⁰  like the first one. ²¹ 

Leviticus 10:16-17

The Problem with the Inaugural Sin Offering

10:16 Later Moses sought diligently for the sin offering male goat, ²²  but it had actually been burnt. ²³  So he became angry at Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, saying, 10:17 “Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sanctuary? For it is most holy and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, ²⁴  to make atonement on their behalf before the Lord.

Leviticus 14:31

14:31 a sin offering and the other a burnt offering along with the grain offering. ²⁵  So the priest is to make atonement for the one being cleansed before the Lord.

Leviticus 15:15

15:15 and the priest is to make one of them a sin offering ²⁶  and the other a burnt offering. ²⁷  So the priest ²⁸  is to make atonement for him before the Lord for ²⁹  his discharge.

Leviticus 15:30

15:30 and the priest is to make one a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. ³⁰  So the priest ³¹  is to make atonement for her before the Lord from her discharge of impurity.

Leviticus 22:9

22:9 They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it ³²  and therefore die ³³  because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

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¹ sn See the note on the word “slaughter” in v. 15.

² tn Heb “And he shall bring out the bull to from outside to the camp.”

³ tn The LXX has a plural form here and also for the same verb later in the verse. See the note on Lev 1:5a.

⁴ tn Heb “Then he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. Based on the parallel statements in 4:10 and 4:31, it is the priest who performs this action rather than the person who brought the offering.

⁵ sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).

⁶ tn Heb “from.” In this phrase the preposition מִן (min) may be referring to the reason or cause (“on account of, because of”; GKC 383 §119.z). As J. E. Hartley (Leviticus [WBC], 47) points out, “from” may refer to the removal of the sin, but is an awkward expression. Hartley also suggests that the phrasing might be “an elliptical expression for יְכַפֵּר עַל־לְטַהֵר אֶת־מִן, ‘he will make expiation for…to cleanse…from…,’ as in 16:30.”

⁷ tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV similar).

⁸ tn Heb “he.” The subject (“he”) refers to the priest here, not the offerer who presented the birds to the priest (cf. v. 8a).

⁹ sn The action seems to involve both a twisting action, breaking the neck of the bird and severing its vertebrae, as well as pinching or nipping the skin, but in this case not severing the head from the main body (note the rest of this verse).

¹⁰ tn Heb “he shall not divide [it]” (see J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:305).

¹¹ tn The word “bird” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹² sn The term “[standard] regulation” (מִשְׁפָּט, mishppat) here refers to the set of regulations for burnt offering birds in Lev 1:14-17.

¹³ sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).

¹⁴ tn See the note on 4:26 with regard to מִן, min.

¹⁵ tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV similar).

¹⁶ tn Heb “It must not be baked leavened” (cf. Lev 2:11). The noun “leaven” is traditional in English versions (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV), but “yeast” is more commonly used today.

¹⁷ tn Heb “holiness of holinesses [or holy of holies] it is”; cf. NAB “most sacred.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “burned with fire,” an expression which is sometimes redundant in English, but here means “burned up,” “burned up entirely.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “from.”

²⁰ tn The expression “and performed a decontamination rite [with] it” reads literally in the MT, “and decontaminated [with] it.” The verb is the Piel of חטא (kht’, Qal = “to sin”), which means “to decontaminate, purify” (i.e., “to de-sin”; see the note on Lev 8:15).

²¹ sn The phrase “like the first one” at the end of the verse refers back to the sin offering for the priests described in vv. 8-11 above. The blood of the sin offering of the common people was applied to the burnt offering altar just like that of the priests.

²² sn This is the very same male goat offered in Lev 9:15 (cf. the note on Lev 10:1 above).

²³ tn Heb “but behold, it had been burnt” (KJV and NASB both similar).

²⁴ sn This translation is quite literal. On the surface it appears to mean that the priests would “bear the iniquity” of the congregation by the act of eating the sin offering (so J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:622-25, 635-40). Such a notion is, however, found nowhere else in the Levitical regulations and seems unlikely (so J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 136). A more likely interpretation is reflected in this interpretive rendering: “he gave it to you [as payment] for [your work of] bearing the iniquity of the congregation.” The previous section of the chapter deals with the prebends that the priests received for performing the ministry of the tabernacle (Lev 10:12-15). Lev 10:16-18, therefore, seems to continue the very same topic in the light of the most immediate situation (see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:702-4).

²⁵ tn Heb “and the one a burnt offering on the grain offering.”

²⁶ sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”

²⁷ tn Heb “and the priest shall make them one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering.” See the note on Lev 1:3 regarding the “burnt offering.”

²⁸ tn Heb “And the priest.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

²⁹ tn Heb “from”; see the note on 4:26.

³⁰ tn Heb “And the priest shall make the one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering.”

³¹ tn Heb “And the priest.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

³² tn Heb “and they will not lift up on it sin.” The pronoun “it” (masculine) apparently refers to any item of food that belongs to the category of “holy offerings” (see above).

³³ tn Heb “and die in it.”