Cases Requiring Sin Offerings

5 “When someone sins in any of these ways:

If he has seen, heard, or known about something he has witnessed, and did not respond to a public call to testify, he will bear his iniquity.^(A)

¹⁹ So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel,^(A) and make a confession to him.^[a] I urge you, tell me what you have done. Don’t hide anything from me.”

³ Then he said to me, “This is the curse^(A) that is going out over the whole land, for everyone who is a thief, contrary to what is written on one side, has gone unpunished,^[a] and everyone who swears falsely, contrary to what is written on the other side, has gone unpunished. ⁴ I will send it out,”^(B)—this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies—“and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will stay inside his house and destroy it along with its timbers and stones.”^(C)

²⁴ So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory^(A) to God.^(B) We know that this man is a sinner.”