Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 5:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
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Quick Meaning
This verse requires a female sheep or goat and announces priestly atonement for the named wrong.
Read It With
- Leviticus 5:1-6
Read through 5:1-6 and watch how each actor, material, status, or command relates. Leviticus 5:6 requires a female sheep or goat and announces priestly atonement for the named wrong; the whole unit establishes this: The unit names failures involving withheld testimony, unnoticed contact, and careless oaths, then requires acknowledgment and an offering when guilt becomes known.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Leviticus places this unit within the sequence that names particular failures, confession, graded access, sacred loss, uncertain guilt, and reparation. Its particular contribution is: The unit names failures involving withheld testimony, unnoticed contact, and careless oaths, then requires acknowledgment and an offering when guilt becomes known. Within that movement, this verse requires a female sheep or goat and announces priestly atonement for the named wrong.
What Remains True
Requires a female sheep or goat and announces priestly atonement for the named wrong. Within Leviticus 5:1-6, this contributes to the larger claim that the unit names failures involving withheld testimony, unnoticed contact, and careless oaths, then requires acknowledgment and an offering when guilt becomes known.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 5:6, keep the verse inside Leviticus 5:1-6. Hold this boundary: Unnoticed ritual contact and culpable false speech are not identical, even though this procedure gathers them under one response. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Continue in Context
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Read Leviticus 5:1-6 — Witness silence, hidden impurity, rash oaths, confession, and offeringSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 5:1-6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 5:1-6
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 5:1-6
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