Discovery BoxLeviticus 5:4 
Context5:4 or when a person swears an oath, speaking thoughtlessly 1 with his lips, whether to do evil or to do good, with regard to anything which the individual might speak thoughtlessly in an oath, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty with regard to one of these oaths 2 –
Leviticus 5:13
Context5:13 So the priest will make atonement 3 on his behalf for his sin which he has committed by doing one of these things, 4 and he will be forgiven. 5 The remainder of the offering 6 will belong to the priest like the grain offering.’” 7
Leviticus 10:19
Context10:19 But Aaron spoke to Moses, “See here! 8 Just today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord and such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten a sin offering today would the Lord have been pleased?” 9
Leviticus 22:22
Context22:22 “‘You must not present to the Lord something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, 10 or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. 11 You must not give any of these as a gift 12 on the altar to the Lord.
1 tn Heb “to speak thoughtlessly”; cf. NAB “rashly utters an oath.”
2 tn Heb “and is guilty to one from these,” probably referring here to any of “these” things about which one might swear a thoughtless oath (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 45), with the word “oath” supplied in the translation for clarity. Another possibility is that “to one from these” is a dittography from v. 5 (cf. the note on v. 5a), and that v. 4 ends with “and is guilty” like vv. 2 and 3 (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:300).
3 sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).
4 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).
5 tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV similar).
6 tn Heb “and it”; the referent (the remaining portion of the offering) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 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).
8 tn Or “Behold!” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NRSV “See.”
9 tn Heb “today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the
10 tn Or perhaps “a wart” (cf. NIV; HALOT 383 s.v. יַבֶּלֶת, but see the remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 358).
11 sn See the note on Lev 21:20 above.
12 sn This term for offering “gift” is explained in the note on Lev 1:9.
