¹⁷ The Lord said to Moses: ^18 (A)Tell Aaron and his sons: This is the ritual for the purification offering. At the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, there also, before the Lord, shall the purification offering be slaughtered. It is most holy.^{(B) 19} The priest who offers the purification offering shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in a sacred place,^(C) in the court of the tent of meeting. ²⁰ Whatever touches its flesh becomes holy. If any of its blood spatters on a garment, the stained part must be washed in a sacred place. ²¹ A clay vessel in which it has been boiled shall be broken; if it is boiled in a copper vessel, this shall be scoured afterward and rinsed with water.^{(D) 22} Every male of the priestly line may eat it. It is most holy. ²³ But no purification offering of which some blood has been brought into the tent of meeting^(E) to make atonement in the sanctuary shall be eaten; it must be burned with fire.^(F)

²² If through inadvertence you fail to do any of these commandments which the Lord has given to Moses—^{(A) 23} anything the Lord commanded you through Moses from the time the Lord first gave the command down through your generations— ²⁴ if it was done inadvertently without the community’s knowledge, the whole community shall sacrifice one bull from the herd as a burnt offering of pleasing aroma to the Lord, along with its prescribed grain offering and libation, as well as one he-goat as a purification offering. ^25 (B)Then the priest shall make atonement for the whole Israelite community; and they will be forgiven, since it was inadvertence, and for their inadvertence they have brought their offering: an oblation to the Lord as well as their purification offering before the Lord. ²⁶ Not only the whole Israelite community but also the aliens residing among you shall be forgiven, since the inadvertent fault affects all the people.

²⁷ If it is an individual who sins inadvertently,^(C) this person shall bring a yearling she-goat as a purification offering. ²⁸ And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the one who erred, since the sin was inadvertent, making atonement for the person to secure forgiveness. ²⁹ You shall have but one rule for the person who sins inadvertently, whether a native-born Israelite or an alien residing among you.

³⁰ But anyone who acts defiantly,^(D) whether a native or an alien, reviles the Lord, and shall be cut off from among the people. ^31 (E)For having despised the word of the Lord and broken his commandment, he must be cut off entirely and bear the punishment.