Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 5

This is a parallel-text scriptural edition presenting Leviticus 5:1–6:7 in three columns: the King James Version (English, with Strong's concordance numbers), the Septuagint (ancient Greek), and the Masoretic Hebrew (Tanakh). The passage belongs to the Pentateuchal legal tradition, specifically the priestly law codes governing individual sin and atonement in ancient Israel. Its primary content is a graduated system of guilt offerings: it specifies four categories of inadvertent or concealed sin (failing to testify, touching ritual impurity, rash oaths, and trespass against sacred things or neighbors), then prescribes corresponding sacrifices scaled to the offender's economic means—from a lamb or goat, down to two birds, down to a tenth of an ephah of flour for the poorest. A notably distinctive feature is the text's insistence that guilt attaches even to sins committed unknowingly or forgotten, and that atonement requires both material restitution (often the principal plus a twenty-percent penalty) and priestly intercession. The tripartite layout makes this a scholarly or comparative-study resource rather than a devotional text, inviting direct comparison of how the Greek and Hebrew traditions render key legal and cultic terminology.

Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 5

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