The Sin Offering

4 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: ² “Tell the Israelites: When someone sins unintentionally^(A) against any of the Lord’s commands and does anything prohibited by them—

³ “If the anointed priest^(B) sins, bringing guilt^(C) on the people, he is to present to the Lord a young, unblemished^(D) bull as a sin^[a] offering^(E) for the sin he has committed. ⁴ He is to bring the bull to the entrance to the tent of meeting before the Lord, lay his hand on the bull’s head, and slaughter it before the Lord. ⁵ The anointed priest will then take some of the bull’s blood and bring it into the tent of meeting. ⁶ The priest is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times^(F) before the Lord in front of the curtain^(G) of the sanctuary.^{(H) 7} The priest is to apply some of the blood to the horns of the altar of fragrant incense^(I) that is before the Lord in the tent of meeting. He must pour out the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering^(J) that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting. ⁸ He is to remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering: the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails, ⁹ and the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins. He will also remove the fatty lobe of the liver with the kidneys, ¹⁰ just as the fat is removed from the ox of the fellowship sacrifice.^(K) The priest is to burn them on the altar of burnt offering. ¹¹ But the hide^(L) of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs, and its entrails and waste— ¹² all the rest of the bull—he must bring to a ceremonially clean place^(M) outside the camp^(N) to the ash heap, and must burn it on a wood fire. It is to be burned at the ash heap.

⁷ But the high priest alone enters the second room, and he does that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.^(A)

²⁴ For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model^[a] of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that he might now appear in the presence of God for us.^{(A) 25} He did not do this to offer himself many times, as the high priest enters the sanctuary yearly with the blood of another.^(B)