Bible Verses About Ignorance: Sins of

Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her.

And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.

Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just?

Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and she say, He is my brother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I done this.

And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her.

Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Say to the children of Israel: The soul that sinneth through ignorance, and doth any thing concerning any of the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded not to be done:

If the priest that is anointed shall sin, making the people to offend, he shall offer to the Lord for his sin a calf without blemish.

And he shall bring it to the door of the testimony before the Lord: and shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall sacrifice it to the Lord.

He shall take also of the blood of the calf: and carry it into the tabernacle of the testimony.

And having dipped his finger in the blood, he shall sprinkle with it seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.

And he shall put some of the same blood upon the horns of the altar of the sweet incense most acceptable to the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the testimony. And he shall pour all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar of holocaust in the entry of the tabernacle.

And he shall take off the fat of the calf for the sin offering, as well that which covereth the entrails, as all the inwards:

The two little kidneys, and the caul that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the fat of the liver with the little kidneys:

As it is taken off from the calf of the sacrifice of peace offerings. And he shall burn them upon the altar of holocaust.

But the skin and all the flesh with the head and the feet and the bowels and the dung:

And the rest of the body, he shall carry forth without the camp into a clean place where the ashes are wont to be poured out: and he shall burn them upon a pile of wood. They shall be burnt in the place where the ashes are poured out.

And if all the multitude of Israel shall be ignorant, and through ignorance shall do that which is against the commandment of the Lord,

And afterwards shall understand their sin: they shall offer for their sin a calf, and shall bring it to the door of the tabernacle.

And the ancients of the people shall put their hands upon the head thereof before the Lord. And the calf being immolated in the sight of the Lord:

The priest that is anointed shall carry of the blood into the tabernacle of the testimony.

And shall dip his finger in it and sprinkle it seven times before the veil.

And he shall put of the same blood on the horns of the altar that is before the Lord, in the tabernacle of the testimony. And the rest of the blood he shall pour at the foot of the altar of holocaust, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.