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| 1 ἐὰ |
1 Here is a sin men commit; a man hears the call that puts him under oath, and can bear witness of what he has seen or known, yet witness he bears none; he must pay the penalty.[1] | 1 Si peccaverit anima, et audierit vocem jurantis, testisque fuerit quod aut ipse vidit, aut conscius est: nisi indicaverit, portabit iniquitatem suam. |
| 2 ἢ ψυχή ἥτις ἐὰ |
2 A man may have touched what has been killed by a wild beast or has fallen dead, or the carcase of a reptile,[2] or some other unclean thing, unaware of his defilement at the time; yet he has incurred guilt by the fault. 3 Or he has touched some defilement of the human body; there are many such; he may be unaware of it till afterwards, but he has incurred guilt. 4 Or he has taken an oath, pronounced with the lips, to do this or that;[3] he has given his pledged word, and then forgotten that he gave it, but remembers it afterwards. 5 For all such faults as these a man must do penance,[4] 6 offering up a ewe-lamb or a she-goat from his flock; so the priest will make intercession to have his fault pardoned. 7 If he has no beast to give, he must offer two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons to the Lord instead, one in amends for his fault, and the other as a burnt-sacrifice. 8 The priest, when these are brought to him, will offer the first as a transgression-victim, bending its head right back to the wings, but so that it is still attached to the neck, not completely severed, 9 and sprinkling some of its blood on the side of the altar; the rest he will allow to drip down at the altar’s foot, to make amends for the transgression. 10 Of the other he will make a burnt-sacrifice, in the customary way, and, at the priest’s intercession, the man will be pardoned. 11 If he cannot even lay his hand on two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, the transgression-offering must be a tenth of a bushel of flour; but he will not mix oil with it, or lay incense on it; this is an offering for transgression. 12 He will hand it to the priest, who will take a handful and burn it on the altar, as a token-sacrifice for the man who brought it, 13 praying and making atonement on his behalf; the rest of it the priest will keep as his own offering. | 2 Anima quæ tetigerit aliquid immundum, sive quod occisum a bestia est, aut per se mortuum, aut quodlibet aliud reptile: et oblita fuerit immunditiæ suæ, rea est, et deliquit: 3 et si tetigerit quidquam de immunditia hominis juxta omnem impuritatem, qua pollui solet, oblitaque cognoverit postea, subjacebit delicto. 4 Anima, quæ juraverit, et protulerit labiis suis, ut vel male quid faceret, vel bene, et idipsum juramento et sermone firmaverit, oblitaque postea intellexerit delictum suum, 5 agat pœnitentiam pro peccato, 6 et offerat de gregibus agnam sive capram, orabitque pro ea sacerdos et pro peccato ejus. 7 Sin autem non potuerit offerre pecus, offerat duos turtures, vel duos pullos columbarum Domino, unum pro peccato, et alterum in holocaustum, 8 dabitque eos sacerdoti: qui primum offerens pro peccato, retorquebit caput ejus ad pennulas, ita ut collo hæreat, et non penitus abrumpatur. 9 Et asperget de sanguine ejus parietem altaris; quidquid autem reliquum fuerit, faciet distillare ad fundamentum ejus, quia pro peccato est. 10 Alterum vero adolebit in holocaustum, ut fieri solet: rogabitque pro eo sacerdos et pro peccato ejus, et dimittetur ei. 11 Quod si non quiverit manus ejus duos offerre turtures, aut duos pullos columbarum, offeret pro peccato suo similæ partem ephi decimam: non mittet in eam oleum, nec thuris aliquid imponet, quia pro peccato est. 12 Tradetque eam sacerdoti: qui plenum ex ea pugillum hauriens, cremabit super altare in monimentum ejus qui obtulerit, 13 rogans pro illo et expians: reliquam vero partem ipse habebit in munere. |
| 14 |
14 And this, too, was a commandment which the Lord gave Moses: 15 If anyone commits a fault by inadvertence, defrauding the Lord of his due over things consecrated, he must make amends for his guilt by offering a ram without blemish out of his flock, such a ram as is worth two silver pieces by sanctuary reckoning. 16 He must also make restitution of the sum that is lacking, and a fifth part of it besides, handing this to the priest, who will make intercession for him when he offers up the ram, and win him pardon. 17 Or, if the fault of inadvertence lies only in disobeying the law, it is enough that, when he becomes aware of his guilt,[5] 18 he should bring the priest a ram without blemish out of his flock, of greater or less worth as the fault demands. And the priest shall intercede for the unwitting transgressor, winning him pardon 19 because he did the Lord a wrong inadvertently. | 14 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens: 15 Anima si prævaricans cæremonias, per errorem, in his quæ Domino sunt sanctificata, peccaverit, offeret pro delicto suo arietem immaculatum de gregibus, qui emi potest duobus siclis, juxta pondus sanctuarii: 16 ipsumque quod intulit damni restituet, et quintam partem ponet supra, tradens sacerdoti, qui rogabit pro eo offerens arietem, et dimittetur ei. 17 Anima si peccaverit per ignorantiam, feceritque unum ex his quæ Domini lege prohibentur, et peccati rea intellexerit iniquitatem suam, 18 offeret arietem immaculatum de gregibus sacerdoti, juxta mensuram æstimationemque peccati: qui orabit pro eo, quia nesciens fecerit: et dimittetur ei, 19 quia per errorem deliquit in Dominum. |
[1] If the text has been correctly preserved, it looks as if this verse must belong to some other context. The offence it contemplates is evidently deliberate, like those at the beginning of chapter 6, whereas the faults mentioned in 5.2-4 are the results of inadvertence, and classed as such (cf. 4.27 above and 5.15 below).
[2] ‘Or the carcase of a reptile’; literally, in the Latin version, ‘or any other reptile’. In the Hebrew text, it is a question of touching the carcase of any unclean beast or reptile.
[3] ‘To do this or that’; literally ‘to do evil or good’, but this is Hebrew idiom for ‘anything whatsoever’. The oath has been forgotten, until it was too late to fulfil it; the fault is therefore only one of inadvertence.
[4] ‘Do penance’; in the Hebrew text, ‘confess’.
[5] The context makes it clear that this command does not refer to faults of inadvertence in general (like chapter 4), but to faults of inadvertence connected with divine worship, though not (like those in verses 15 and 16) unjustly enriching the person who commits them.
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Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
Re-typeset and published in 2012 by Baronius Press Ltd
