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Leviticus 5:5

And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:

It shall be ... shall confess - make a voluntary acknowledgment of his sin from the impulse of his own conscience, and before it come to the knowledge of the world. A previous discovery might have subjected him to some degree of punishment from which his spontaneous confession released him; but still he was considered guilty of a sin, to expiate which he was obliged by the ceremonial law to go through certain observances.

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See also Leviticus 5:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 5:5. _HE SHALL CONFESS THAT HE HATH SINNED_] Even _restitution_ was not sufficient without this confession, because a man might make restitution without being much _humbled_; but the c...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Special occasions are mentioned on which sin-offerings are to be made with a particular confession of the offence for which atonement is sought Leviticus 5:5. Leviticus 5:1 SWEARING - Adjuration. The...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. THE SIN OFFERING Chapter S 4-5:13 _ 1. The second utterance of Jehovah (Leviticus 4:1)_ 2. The sin offering for the high priest (Leviticus 4:3) 3. The sin offering for the congregation (Levitic...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SINS FOR WHICH OFFERINGS ARE NECESSARY. The first case is that of one who, when evidence in a trial is called for under a curse, deliberately conceals what he knows (there is no unwittingly here); the...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LEVITICUS 4:1 TO LEVITICUS 5:13. THE SIN OFFERING. This, and the guilt offering, whose ritual follows, are unknown before the Exile, save as fines (2 Kings 12:16;...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SINNED. Hebrew. _chata._ App-44....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The LXX. omit the first clause of Leviticus 5:5 as far as -these _things_" (this _may_be due to confusion of the phrase with the identical one at the end of Leviticus 5:4 -one of these _things_"). The...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IT SHALL BE, WHEN HE SHALL BE GUILTY IN ONE OF THESE— Read, _when he shall be sensible of his guilt in any one of these things, he shall confess,_ &c. To the confession, the Hebrew rabbis say, the usu...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT 5:1-13 1 And if any one sin, in that he heareth the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he hath seen or known, if he do not utter _it,_ then he shall bear his iniquity. 2 Or if a...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:5 guilty (e-9) See Note b, ver. 1....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIN OFFERING AND THE GUILT OFEERING (CONTINUED) 1-6. Special cases in which it is proper to offer a Sin Offering. Such are the withholding of testimony (Leviticus 5:1), touching a carcase or uncle...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN... — When he feels that he has been guilty of one of these sins specified in Leviticus 5:1, he must confess the offence which he has committed. For the form of confession which o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָ֥ה כִֽי ־יֶאְשַׁ֖ם לְ אַחַ֣ת מֵ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE RITUAL OF THE SIN OFFERING Leviticus 4:4; Leviticus 5:1; Leviticus 6:24 ACCORDING to the Authorised Version, Leviticus 5:6

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    TRESPASS-OFFERINGS FOR VARIOUS SINS Leviticus 5:1 The sin-offering was closely resembled by the trespass-offering; but they differed in this: that the former was meant to fix the thought of the sinne...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Commentators have not been in agreement in their interpretation of this section, some holding that it deals with the sin offering, some that it is the commencement of the trespass offering. I believe...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these (c) [things], that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that [thing]: (c) Which have been mentioned before in this chapter....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Let, &c. Hebrew, "and surely when he is guilty in one of these things, he shall confess that he hath sinned therein; (ver. 6.) and he shall bring his sin-offering unto the Lord, for his transgression...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Rash vows are of this kind. Ecclesiastes 5:6....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, 6, AND 7. We come now to the sacrifices which were not sacrifices of sweet savour-the sin and trespass-offerings, alike in the great principle, though d...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN HE SHALL BE GUILTY IN ONE OF THESE THINGS,.... Before expressed in the preceding verses; the Targum of Jonathan is, "in one of the four things,'' which Ben Gersom particularly...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these [things], that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that [thing]: Ver. 5. _He shall confess._] _Homo agnoscit, Deus ignoscit,_ Man confesse...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _In one of these things_ In one of the three forementioned cases, either by sinful silence, or by an unclean touch, or by rash swearing. _He shall confess_ Before the Lord, in the place of public wors...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 He that sinneth in concealing his knowledge, 2 in touching an vncleane thing, 4 or in making an oath. 6 His trespasse offering, of the flocke, 7 of foules, 11 or of flowre. 14 The trespasse of...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing, acknowledge the particular fault concerned before presenting the sacrificial a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    SPECIAL CASES OF SIN-OFFERINGS....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    OFFERING FOR A SPECIFIC SIN (VV. 1-6) The subject of the sin offering is continued in this chapter up to the end of verse 13. It is a descending scale, for the specific sin has to be brought to the at...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-13 The offences here noticed are, 1. A man's concealing the truth, when he was sworn as a witness to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. If, in such a case, for fear of off...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IN ONE OF THESE THINGS; in one of the three forementioned cases, either by sinful silence and compliance with others in their sin, LEVITICUS 4:1; or by an unclean touch, as LEVITICUS 4:2,3; or by rash...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    Having Considered the "sweet savour" Offerings, We now approach the "sacrifices for sin." These were divided into two classes, namely, sin offerings and trespass offerings. Of the former, there were t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 5:5 guilty H816 (H8799) any H259 confess H3034 (H8694) sinned H2398 (H8804) confess -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GUILT OFFERING OF AN ANIMAL (LEVITICUS 5:5). Leviticus 5:5 ‘And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that wherein he has sinned, and he shall bring...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Trespass offering laws. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Even when a man unwittingly breaks the laws of God, full restitution must be made, which is possible only through the presentati...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 5:1. _He shall bear his iniquity. Proverbs 29:24_, seems to refer to this passage. “He that hears cursing, and betrays it not, hates his own soul.” The sons of Belial said, that they heard N...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing._ SIN MUST BE FULLY CONFESSED Cover sin over as much as we may, and smother it down as carefully as we can, it will break out. Many years ago the p...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 5:1 These verses describe four cases in which sinners either deliberately (v. Leviticus 5:1) or unknowingly (vv....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Trespasses Heedlessly Committed SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 5:1.—If the soul … hear the voice of swearing. Sins may be acted out consciously and defiantly; for such there was no expiation provided....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE SIN OFFERING—continued (Leviticus 5:1). The subject of the next thirteen verses is still the sin offering, not the trespass offering, as has been supposed by some. The first six verses...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter five. And if a soul sinned, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he has seen or known of it; and he does not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity (Leviticus 5:1). I...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 1:8; Daniel 9:4; Ezra 10:11; Ezra 10:12; Jeremiah 3:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In one of these things — In one of the three forementioned cases, either by sinful silence, or by an unclean touch, or by rash swearing. He shall confess — Before the Lord in the place of public worsh...

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