Leviticus 4:31

4:31 Then he must remove all of its fat (just as fat was removed from the peace offering sacrifice) and the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar for a soothing aroma to the Lord. So the priest will make atonement ¹  on his behalf and he will be forgiven. ² 

Leviticus 4:35

4:35 Then the one who brought the offering ³  must remove all its fat (just as the fat of the sheep is removed from the peace offering sacrifice) and the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar on top of the other gifts of the Lord. So the priest will make atonement ⁴  on his behalf for his sin which he has committed and he will be forgiven. ⁵ 

Leviticus 5:6

5:6 and he must bring his penalty for guilt ⁶  to the Lord for his sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, whether a female sheep or a female goat, for a sin offering. So the priest will make atonement ⁷  on his behalf for ⁸  his sin.

Leviticus 5:18

5:18 and must bring a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver shekels, ⁹  for a guilt offering to the priest. So the priest will make atonement ¹⁰  on his behalf for his error which he committed ¹¹  (although he himself had not known it) and he will be forgiven. ¹² 

Leviticus 8:15

8:15 and he slaughtered it. ¹³  Moses then took the blood and put it all around on the horns of the altar with his finger and decontaminated the altar, ¹⁴  and he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and so consecrated it to make atonement on it. ¹⁵ 

Leviticus 11:32

11:32 Also, anything they fall on ¹⁶  when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water ¹⁷  and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

Leviticus 14:21

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14:21 “If the person is poor and does not have sufficient means, ¹⁸  he must take one male lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make atonement for himself, one-tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil, ¹⁹ 

Leviticus 22:3

22:3 Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, ²⁰  if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate ²¹  to the Lord while he is impure, ²²  that person must be cut off from before me. ²³  I am the Lord.

¹ sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).

² tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV similar).

³ tn Heb “Then he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here “he” refers to the offerer rather than the priest (contrast the clauses before and after).

⁴ sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).

⁵ tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV similar).

⁵ tn In this context the word for “guilt” (אָשָׁם, ’asham) refers to the “penalty” for incurring guilt, the so-called consequential אָשָׁם (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:303; cf. the note on Lev 5:1).

⁶ sn The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4).

⁷ tn See the note on 4:26 regarding the use of מִן (min).

⁷ tn The statement here is condensed. See the full expression in 5:15 and the note there.

⁸ sn Regarding “make atonement” see the note on Lev 1:4.

⁹ tn Heb “on his straying which he strayed.” See the note on Lev 4:2.

¹⁰ tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him” (KJV and NASB both similar).

⁹ sn Contrary to some English versions (e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT), Aaron (not Moses) most likely slaughtered the bull, possibly with the help of his sons, although the verb is singular, not plural. Moses then performed the ritual procedures that involved direct contact with the altar. Compare the pattern in Lev 1:5-9, where the offerer does the slaughtering and the priests perform the procedures that involve direct contact with the altar. In Lev 8 Moses is functioning as the priest in order to consecrate the priesthood. The explicit reintroduction of the name of Moses as the subject of the next verb seems to reinforce this understanding of the passage (cf. also vv. 19 and 23 below).

¹⁰ tn The verb is the Piel of חָטָא (khata’, “to sin”) and means “to de-sin” the altar. This verse is important for confirming the main purpose of the sin offering, which was to decontaminate the tabernacle and its furniture from any impurities. See the note on Lev 4:3.

¹¹ tn Similar to v. 10 above, “and consecrated it” refers to the effect of the blood manipulation earlier in the verse. The goal here was to consecrate the altar in order that it might become a place on which it would be appropriate “to make atonement” before the Lord.

¹¹ tn Heb “And all which it shall fall on it from them.”

¹² tn Heb “in water it shall be brought.”

¹³ tn Heb “and his hand does not reach”; NAB, NRSV “and cannot afford so much (afford these NIV).”

¹⁴ tn See the notes on v. 10 above.

¹⁵ tn Heb “To your generations.”

¹⁶ tn The Piel (v. 2) and Hiphil (v. 3) forms of the verb קָדַשׁ (qadash) appear to be interchangeable in this context. Both mean “to consecrate” (Heb “make holy [or “sacred”]”).

¹⁷ tn Heb “and his impurity [is] on him”; NIV “is ceremonially unclean”; NAB, NRSV “while he is in a state of uncleanness.”

¹⁸ sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty, see the note on Lev 7:20. Cf. the interpretive translation of TEV “he can never again serve at the altar.”