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Introduction to Leviticus 5:1 Leviticus 5:1 is part of the Torah’s legal instructions concerning guilt offerings (אָשָׁם) and the responsibility of bearing witness in legal cases. The verse outlines a conditional scenario where an individual who hears an oath of adjuration (אָלָה) and fails to testify incurs sin and guilt. This passage is structured as follows: An introduction to a general sin condition (וְנֶ֣פֶשׁ כִּֽי־תֶחֱטָ֗א, “If a soul sins”). A specific situation: hearing an oath and being a witness (וְשָֽׁמְעָה֙ קֹ֣ול אָלָ֔ה, “and hears the voice of an oath”).… Learn Hebrew