if his sin, which he has sinned, is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin which he has sinned.
Parallel translations
- KJV Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
- BSB When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished female goat as his offering for that sin.
- NKJV or if his sin which he has committed comes to his knowledge, then he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.
- NASB if his sin which he has committed is made known to him, then he shall bring as his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin which he has committed.
- NLT When they become aware of their sin, they must bring as an offering for their sin a female goat with no defects.
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Quick answer
On learning of his sin the common person brings a female goat without defect. Personal acknowledgment of sin leads to a prescribed remedy.
Overview
The ordinary worshiper offers a female goat, a humbler offering than the ruler's male goat, reflecting graded provision suited to each rank. The requirement that it be 'without defect' again insists on perfection in what represents the worshiper before God. The pattern teaches that sin must be owned and brought to God on His terms, terms finally met in Christ.
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- Lev 4:23if his sin, in which he has sinned, is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect.
- Lev 4:3if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering.
- Lev 4:32“‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.
- Gal 4:4–5But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
- Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Gen 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
- Lev 5:6and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
- Jer 31:22How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.”
- Isa 7:14Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
- Lev 4:14when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.
- Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
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