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 5:17
Context5:17 “If a person sins and violates any of the Lord’s commandments which must not be violated 3 (although he did not know it at the time, 4 but later realizes he is guilty), then he will bear his punishment for iniquity 5
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 tn Heb “and does one from all of the commandments of the
4 tn The words “at the time” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.
5 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
