5:17 “If a person sins and violates any of the Lord’s commandments which must not be violated 1 (although he did not know it at the time, 2 but later realizes he is guilty), then he will bear his punishment for iniquity 3
1 tn Heb “and does one from all of the commandments of the
2 tn The words “at the time” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.
3 tn Heb “and he did not know, and he shall be guilty and he shall bear his iniquity” (for the rendering “bear his punishment [for iniquity]”) see the note on Lev 5:1.) This portion of v. 17 is especially difficult. The translation offered here suggests (as in many other English versions) that the offender did not originally know that he had violated the