{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_tan_lev005_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_tan_lev005_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_tan_lev005_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/tan/lev005.htm","summary":"This is a passage from the Hebrew Bible \u2014 specifically Leviticus 5:1\u20136:7 in standard Christian versification (Leviticus 5:1\u201326 in the Hebrew counting) \u2014 presented in its original Biblical Hebrew with full vowel pointing alongside a scholarly phonemic transliteration. The genre is priestly legal code within the Pentateuchal tradition, belonging to the so-called \"P\" (Priestly) source.\n\nThe passage enumerates four categories of offense requiring a guilt or sin offering: failing to testify when under oath to do so, inadvertent contact with ritual impurity, rash or forgotten oaths, and unintentional misappropriation of sacred property. A distinctive feature is its graduated atonement system: the required sacrifice scales down from a female sheep or goat, to two turtledoves or pigeons, to a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for those too poor to afford birds \u2014 making ritual expiation economically accessible across all social strata. The passage then shifts to intentional offenses against a neighbor (fraud, theft, false oath regarding a deposit or lost property), where atonement requires not only a ram but full restitution of the principal plus a twenty-percent penalty paid to the wronged party before the priestly rite. The dual-column Hebrew/transliteration format suggests a pedagogical or academic purpose, likely for students of Biblical Hebrew or liturgical study, rather than a devotional edition.","tags":["Book of Amos","Hebrew Bible","Tanakh"],"text":null,"title":"Tanach: Leviticus (Vayikra): Leviticus (Vayikra) Chapter 5","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":803}