And whatever holy thing he violated<n id="1" /> he must restore and must add one fifth to it and give it to the priest. So the priest will make atonement<n id="2" /> on his behalf with the guilt offering ram and he will be forgiven.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

&#8220;When a person sins and commits a trespass<n id="1" /> against the <sc>Lordsc> by deceiving his fellow citizen<n id="2" /> in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen,<n id="3" />

when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty,<n id="1" /> then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust,<n id="2" /> or the lost thing that he had found,

and he slaughtered it.<n id="1" /> Moses then took the blood and put it all around on the horns of the altar with his finger and decontaminated the altar,<n id="2" /> and he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and so consecrated it to make atonement on it.<n id="3" />

Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the <sc>Lordsc>. And that person must be cut off from Israel,<n id="1" /> because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.p>

But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the <sc>Lordsc>; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.p>

Then the people came to Moses and said, &#8220;We have sinned, for we have spoken against the <sc>Lordsc> and against you. Pray to the <sc>Lordsc> that he would take away<n id="1" /> the snakes from us.&#8221; So Moses prayed for the people.p>

Balaam said to the angel of the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood against me in the road.<n id="1" /> So now, if it is evil in your sight,<n id="2" /> I will go back home.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire,<n id="1" /> and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then you responded to me and admitted, &#8220;We have sinned against the <sc>Lordsc>. We will now go up and fight as the <sc>Lordsc> our God has told us to do.&#8221; So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.

Then I again fell down before the <sc>Lordsc> for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the <sc>Lordsc> as to enrage him.

<p class="bodytext">A single witness may not testify<n id="1" /> against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established<n id="2" /> only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry<n id="1" /> her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" /> You must not bring guilt on the land<n id="3" /> which the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as an inheritance.p>

Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment!<n id="1" /> They have taken some of the riches;<n id="2" /> they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions.<n id="3" />

I have not done you wrong,<n id="1" /> but you are doing wrong<n id="2" /> by attacking me. May the <sc>Lordsc>, the Judge, judge this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites!&#8217;&#8221;

After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the <sc>Lordsc>. They fasted on that day, and they confessed<n id="1" /> there, &#8220;We have sinned against the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221; So Samuel led<n id="2" /> the people of Israel at Mizpah.p>

Then they cried out to the <sc>Lordsc> and admitted,<n id="1" /> &#8216;We have sinned, for we have forsaken the <sc>Lordsc> and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth.<n id="2" /> Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.&#8217;<n id="3" />

Then Saul said, &#8220;Scatter out among the army and say to them, &#8216;Each of you bring to me your ox and sheep and slaughter them in this spot and eat. But don&#8217;t sin against the <sc>Lordsc> by eating the blood.&#8221; So that night each one brought his ox and slaughtered it there.<n id="1" />

He risked his life<n id="1" /> when he struck down the Philistine and the <sc>Lordsc> gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?&#8221;p>