16 Bible Verses about Unintentional

to tell the people of Israel: If a person sins unintentionally and does not keep Jehovah's commandments he would have to observe the following rules:

When a ruler sins and becomes guilty of breaking one of Jehovah's commands without intending to,

When a common person unintentionally does something wrong, even one thing forbidden by Jehovah's commandments, he will be guilty.

If any of you fail to do your duty by unintentionally doing something wrong with any of Jehovah's holy things, bring a guilt offering to Jehovah. It must be a ram that has no defects or its value in silver weighed according to the official standards of the holy place.

Bring to the priest as a repayment offering a male sheep or goat without any defects. Its value is to be determined according to the official standard. The priest shall offer the sacrifice for the sin that you committed unintentionally. You will be forgiven.

If the mistake was made because of the ignorance of the congregation, they are to offer a bull as a burnt offering, an odor that pleases Jehovah. Use the proper grain offering and wine offering. In addition, they are to offer a male goat as a sin offering.

If any of you sin unintentionally, you should offer a one-year-old female goat as a sin offering.

The same regulation applies to all who unintentionally commit a sin, whether they are native Israelites or resident foreigners.

If any people who are not members of a priestly family eat any of the sacred offerings without intending to, they must repay the priest its full value plus an additional twenty percent.

If you did not intend to kill someone and I, Jehovah, let it happen anyway, you may run for safety to a place that I have set aside.

select certain cities to be places of refuge. Anyone who unintentionally kills another person may run to them.

These six cities will be places of refuge for Israelites, foreigners, and strangers among you. Anyone who unintentionally kills another person may flee to these cities.

Those who unintentionally killed someone whom they had never hated could flee to one of these cities and save their lives.

A person who unintentionally kills someone he never hated in the past may run to one of these cities to save his life.

Anyone who kills someone accidentally and unintentionally may go there for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

These were the cities of refuge chosen for all the people of Israel and for any foreigner living among them. Any who killed a person accidentally could find protection there from the one looking for revenge. They could not be killed unless they had first received a public trial.