If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.’

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

Then the  Lord said, ‘The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous

Then the  Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,

Then God said to him in the dream, ‘Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

Then Abimelek called Abraham in and said, ‘What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.’

Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”

Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. ‘What is my crime?’ he asked Laban. ‘How have I wronged you that you hunt me down?

Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night.

What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?’

He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”

Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.

Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker committed an offense against their lord the king of Egypt.

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, ‘Today I am reminded of my shortcomings.

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “I remember my offenses today.

Reuben replied, ‘Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn’t listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.’

And Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”

I myself will guarantee his safety; you can hold me personally responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.

I will be a pledge of his safety. From my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.

Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said, “If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!”

For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’

“This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.” Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.’ When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Your servants are given no straw, yet we are told, “Make bricks!” Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.’

No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. ‘This time I have sinned,’ he said to them. ‘The  Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.

Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the  Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.

When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: he and his officials hardened their hearts.

But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, ‘I have sinned against the  Lord your God and against you.

Then Pharaoh hastily called Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the  Lord your God, and against you.

Now forgive my sin once more and pray to the  Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me.’

Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only this once, and plead with the  Lord your God only to remove this death from me.”

The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt.

They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.

The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, travelling from place to place as the  Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the  Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

Moses said to the people, ‘Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.’

Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.”

Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you.’

They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

But burn the bull’s flesh and its hide and its intestines outside the camp. It is a sin offering.

But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.

and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it.

Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering for the generations to come. It is most holy to the  Lord.’

Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the  Lord.”

He said to Aaron, ‘What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?’

And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?”

The next day Moses said to the people, ‘You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the  Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.’

The next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the  Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

So Moses went back to the  Lord and said, ‘Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold.

So Moses returned to the  Lord and said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold.

But now, please forgive their sin – but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.’

But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.”

The  Lord replied to Moses, ‘Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.

But the  Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book.

Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.’

But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.”

maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’

keeping steadfast love for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

‘Lord,’ he said, ‘if I have found favour in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.’

And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

‘Say to the Israelites: “When anyone sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the  Lord’s commands –

“Speak to the people of Israel, saying If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the  Lord’s commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them,

‘“If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the  Lord a young bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the  Lord for a sin offering.

He shall remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering – all the fat that is connected to the internal organs,

And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall remove from it, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails

and the sin they committed becomes known, the assembly must bring a young bull as a sin offering and present it before the tent of meeting.

when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting.

and do with this bull just as he did with the bull for the sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for the community, and they will be forgiven.

Thus shall he do with the bull. As he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.

Then he shall take the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. This is the sin offering for the community.

And he shall carry the bull outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.

‘“When a leader sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the commands of the  Lord his God, when he realises his guilt

“When a leader sins doing unintentionally any one of all the things that by the commandments of the  Lord his God ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt,

and the sin he has committed becomes known, he must bring as his offering a male goat without defect.

or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish,

He is to lay his hand on the goat’s head and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the  Lord. It is a sin offering.

and shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the  Lord; it is a sin offering.

Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

He shall burn all the fat on the altar as he burned the fat of the fellowship offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for the leader’s sin, and he will be forgiven.

And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.

‘“If any member of the community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the  Lord’s commands, when they realise their guilt

“If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the  Lord’s commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt,

and the sin they have committed becomes known, they must bring as their offering for the sin they committed a female goat without defect.

or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.

They are to lay their hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.

And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.

‘“If someone brings a lamb as their sin offering, they are to bring a female without defect.

“If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish

They are to lay their hand on its head and slaughter it for a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

and lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.

They shall remove all the fat, just as the fat is removed from the lamb of the fellowship offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar on top of the food offerings presented to the  Lord. In this way the priest will make atonement for them for the sin they have committed, and they will be forgiven.

And all its fat he shall remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on top of the  Lord’s food offerings. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.

‘“If anyone sins because they do not speak up when they hear a public charge to testify regarding something they have seen or learned about, they will be held responsible.

“If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity;

when anyone becomes aware that they are guilty in any of these matters, they must confess in what way they have sinned.

when he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed,

As a penalty for the sin they have committed, they must bring to the  Lord a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering ; and the priest shall make atonement for them for their sin.

he shall bring to the  Lord as his compensation for the sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.

‘“Anyone who cannot afford a lamb is to bring two doves or two young pigeons to the  Lord as a penalty for their sin – one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

“But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the  Lord as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two pigeons one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

They are to bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one for the sin offering. He is to wring its head from its neck, not dividing it completely,

He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering. He shall wring its head from its neck but shall not sever it completely,

and is to splash some of the blood of the sin offering against the side of the altar; the rest of the blood must be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.

and he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.

The priest shall then offer the other as a burnt offering in the prescribed way and make atonement for them for the sin they have committed, and they will be forgiven.

Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.

‘“If, however, they cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, they are to bring as an offering for their sin a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour for a sin offering. They must not put olive oil or incense on it, because it is a sin offering.

“But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

They are to bring it to the priest, who shall take a handful of it as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar on top of the food offerings presented to the  Lord. It is a sin offering.

And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, on the  Lord’s food offerings; it is a sin offering.