(NIV)
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.’
(ESV)
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.”
(NIV)
Then the
Lord said, ‘The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
(ESV)
Then the
Lord said, “Because the
outcry against
Sodom and
Gomorrah is
great and their
sin is
very grave,
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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.’
(ESV)
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.”
(NIV)
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?
(ESV)
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?
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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?’
(ESV)
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?”
(NIV)
Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.
(ESV)
Some time
after this, the
cupbearer of the
king of
Egypt and his
baker committed an offense against their
lord the
king of
Egypt.
(NIV)
Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, ‘Today I am reminded of my shortcomings.
(ESV)
Then the
chief cupbearer said to
Pharaoh, “I
remember my
offenses today.
(NIV)
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.’
(ESV)
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.”
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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!”
(ESV)
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.’
(NIV)
“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.
(ESV)
‘
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.
(NIV)
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.’
(ESV)
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.”
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: he and his officials hardened their hearts.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, ‘I have sinned against the
Lord your God and against you.
(ESV)
Then
Pharaoh hastily called Moses and
Aaron and
said, “I have
sinned against the
Lord your
God, and against you.
(NIV)
Now forgive my sin once more and pray to the
Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me.’
(ESV)
Now therefore,
forgive my
sin,
please,
only this
once, and
plead with the
Lord your
God only to
remove this
death from me.”
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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.’
(ESV)
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.”
(NIV)
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.’
(ESV)
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.”
(NIV)
But burn the bull’s flesh and its hide and its intestines outside the camp. It is a sin offering.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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.’
(ESV)
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.”
(NIV)
He said to Aaron, ‘What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?’
(ESV)
And
Moses said to
Aaron, “
What did
this people do to you
that you have
brought such a
great sin upon them?”
(NIV)
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.’
(ESV)
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.”
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
So
Moses returned to the
Lord and
said, “
Alas, this
people has
sinned a
great sin. They have
made for themselves
gods of
gold.
(NIV)
But now, please forgive their sin – but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.’
(ESV)
But
now,
if you will
forgive their
sin—but
if not,
please blot me
out of your
book that you have
written.”
(NIV)
The
Lord replied to Moses, ‘Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.
(ESV)
But the
Lord said to
Moses, “
Whoever has
sinned against me, I will
blot out of my
book.
(NIV)
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.’
(ESV)
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.”
(NIV)
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.’
(ESV)
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.”
(NIV)
‘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.’
(ESV)
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.”
(NIV)
‘Say to the Israelites: “When anyone sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the
Lord’s commands –
(ESV)
“
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,
(NIV)
‘“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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
He shall remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering – all the fat that is connected to the internal organs,
(ESV)
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
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
‘“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
(ESV)
“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,
(NIV)
and the sin he has committed becomes known, he must bring as his offering a male goat without defect.
(ESV)
or the
sin which he has
committed is made
known to him, he shall
bring as his
offering a
goat, a
male without blemish,
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
‘“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
(ESV)
“
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,
(NIV)
and the sin they have committed becomes known, they must bring as their offering for the sin they committed a female goat without defect.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
They are to lay their hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.
(ESV)
And he shall
lay his
hand on the
head of the
sin offering and
kill the
sin offering in the
place of
burnt offering.
(NIV)
‘“If someone brings a lamb as their sin offering, they are to bring a female without defect.
(ESV)
“If he
brings a
lamb as his
offering for a
sin offering, he shall
bring a
female without blemish
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
‘“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.
(ESV)
“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;
(NIV)
when anyone becomes aware that they are guilty in any of these matters, they must confess in what way they have sinned.
(ESV)
when he
realizes his
guilt in
any of these and
confesses the
sin he has
committed,
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
‘“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.
(ESV)
“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.
(NIV)
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,
(ESV)
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,
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
(NIV)
‘“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.
(ESV)
“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.
(NIV)
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.
(ESV)
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.
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