Numbers 15:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the one who commits an error, when it is unintentional, to make atonement for the person, who then shall be forgiven.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who commits an error when he sins unknowingly or unintentionally, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that erreth, when he sinneth unwittingly, before Jehovah, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

Common English Bible

²⁸ The priest will seek reconciliation in the LORD’s presence for the person who sinned unintentionally, when the sin is an accident, seeking reconciliation so that person will be forgiven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And the priest shall pray for him, because he sinned unknowingly before the Lord. And he shall obtain pardon for him, and it will be forgiven him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ And the priest shall pray for him, because he sinned ignorantly before the Lord: and he shall obtain his pardon, and it shall be forgiven him.

Numbers 15:28 Cross References

Leviticus 14:18

The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the Lord:

Leviticus 4:2

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

Leviticus 4:20

He shall do with the bull just as is done with the bull of purification offering; he shall do the same with this. The priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:35

You shall remove all its fat, as the fat of the sheep is removed from the sacrifice of well-being, and the priest shall turn it into smoke on the altar, with the offerings by fire to the Lord. Thus the priest shall make atonement on your behalf for the sin that you have committed, and you shall be forgiven.

Numbers 15:29

For both the native among the Israelites and the alien residing among you, you shall have the same law for anyone who acts in error.