35:22 “But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,
15:22 1 “‘If you 2 sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses –
15:27 “‘If any person 3 sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.
1 sn These regulations supplement what was already ruled on in the Levitical code for the purification and reparation offerings. See those rulings in Lev 4-7 for all the details. Some biblical scholars view the rules in Leviticus as more elaborate and therefore later. However, this probably represents a misunderstanding of the purpose of each collection.
2 tn The verb is the plural imperfect; the sin discussed here is a sin committed by the community, or the larger part of the community.
3 tn The Hebrew text hasוְאִם־נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת (vÿ’im-nefesh ’akhat), sometime translated “and if any soul.” But the word describes the whole person, the soul in the body; it refers here to the individual who sins.