Discovery BoxLeviticus 4:20 
Context4:20 He must do with the rest of the bull just as he did with the bull of the sin offering; this is what he must do with it. 1 So the priest will make atonement 2 on their behalf and they will be forgiven. 3
Leviticus 4:25
Context4:25 Then the priest must take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and he must pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
Leviticus 4:34
Context4:34 Then the priest must take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and he must pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.
Leviticus 5:12-13
Context5:12 He must bring it to the priest and the priest must scoop out from it a handful as its memorial portion 4 and offer it up in smoke on the altar on top of the other gifts of the Lord – it is a sin offering. 5:13 So the priest will make atonement 5 on his behalf for his sin which he has committed by doing one of these things, 6 and he will be forgiven. 7 The remainder of the offering 8 will belong to the priest like the grain offering.’” 9
Leviticus 9:7
Context9:7 Moses then said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and make your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement on behalf of yourself and on behalf of the people; 10 and also make the people’s offering and make atonement on behalf of them just as the Lord has commanded.”
Leviticus 12:6
Context12:6 “‘When 11 the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she must bring a one year old lamb 12 for a burnt offering 13 and a young pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering 14 to the entrance of the Meeting Tent, to the priest.
Leviticus 12:8
Context12:8 If she cannot afford a sheep, 15 then she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, 16 one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering, and the priest is to make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.’” 17
Leviticus 16:15
Context16:15 “He must then slaughter the sin offering goat which is for the people. He is to bring its blood inside the veil-canopy, 18 and he is to do with its blood just as he did to the blood of the bull: He is to sprinkle it on the atonement plate and in front of the atonement plate.
1 sn Cf. Lev 4:11-12 above for the disposition of “the [rest of] the bull.”
2 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).
3 tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to them” or “it shall be forgiven to them.”
4 sn The “memorial portion” (אַזְכָּרָה, ’azkkarah) was the part of the grain offering that was burnt on the altar (Lev 2:2), as opposed to the remainder, which was normally consumed by the priests (Lev 2:3; see the full regulations in Lev 6:14-23 [6:7-16 HT]). It was probably intended to call to mind (i.e., memorialize) before the
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 one from these,” referring to the four kinds of violations of the law delineated in Lev 5:1-4 (see the note on Lev 5:5 above and cf. Lev 4:27).
7 tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV similar).
8 tn Heb “and it”; the referent (the remaining portion of the offering) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “and it shall be to the priest like the grain offering,” referring to the rest of the grain that was not offered on the altar (cf. the regulations in Lev 2:3, 10).
10 tn Instead of “on behalf of the people,” the LXX has “on behalf of your house” as in the Hebrew text of Lev 16:6, 11, 17. Many commentaries follow the LXX here (e.g., J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:578; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 118) as do a few English versions (e.g., NAB), but others argue that, as on the Day of Atonement (Lev 16), the offerings of the priests also effected the people, even though there was still the need to have special offerings made on behalf of the people as reflected in the second half of the verse (e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 56).
11 tn Heb “And when” (so KJV, NASB). Many recent English versions leave the conjunction untranslated.
12 tn Heb “a lamb the son of his year”; KJV “a lamb of the first year” (NRSV “in its first year”); NAB “a yearling lamb.”
13 sn See the note on Lev 1:3 regarding the “burnt offering.”
14 sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”
15 tn Heb “If her hand cannot find the sufficiency of a sheep.” Many English versions render this as “lamb.”
16 tn Heb “from the sons of the pigeon,” referring either to “young pigeons” or “various species of pigeon” (contrast J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:168, with J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 14; cf. Lev 1:14 and esp. 5:7-10).
17 tn Or “she will be[come] pure.”
18 tn Heb “and he shall bring its blood into from house to the veil-canopy.”
