Leviticus 6:5

_OR HAVE FOUND THAT WHICH WAS LOST, AND LIETH CONCERNING IT, AND SWEARETH FALSELY; IN ANY OF ALL THESE THAT A MAN DOETH, SINNING THEREIN:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

1-7 Though all the instances relate to our neighbour, yet it is called a trespass against the Lord. Though the person injured be mean, and even despicable, yet the injury reflects upon that God who has made the command of loving our neighbour next to that of loving himself. Human laws make a difference as to punishments; but all methods of doing wrong to others, are alike violations of the Divine law, even keeping what is found, when the owner can be discovered. Frauds are generally accompanied with lies, often with false oaths. If the offender would escape the vengeance of God, he must make ample restitution, according to his power, and seek forgiveness by faith in that one Offering which taketh away the sin of the world. The trespasses here mentioned, still are trespasses against the law of Christ, which insists as much upon justice and truth, as the law of nature, or the law of Moses....

Verse Leviticus 6:5. _ALL THAT ABOUT WHICH HE HATH SWORN FALSELY_] This supposes the case of a man who, being convicted by his own conscience, comes forward and confesses his sin. _RESTORE IT IN THE PRINCIPAL_] The property itself if still remaining, or the full value of it, to which a _fifth_ part more was to be added....

IN THE DAY OF HIS TRESPASS OFFERING - The restitution was thus to be associated with the religious act by which the offender testified his penitence....

EXPOSITION THE TRESPASS OFFERING—_continued_ (Leviticus 6:1). The next seven verses, which in the Hebrew arrangement form the conclusion of the previous chapter, enumerate cases of fraud and wrong, for which a trespass offering is required. They are moral, not ceremonial offenses. Reparation and the payment of a fine are demanded before the offering is made. LEVITICUS 6:1 AND THE LORD SPAKE. The six following verses contain a separate communication from the Lord to Moses, but in continuance of the subject which began at Le Leviticus 5:14....

OR ALL THAT ABOUT WHICH HE HATH SWORN FALSELY,.... In all and each of the above cases, in which he had committed a trespass and denied it, and to the denial adds a false oath, and yet after all acknowledges it: HE SHALL EVEN RESTORE IT IN THE PRINCIPAL; whatsoever he has embezzled, or cheated another of, or detained from the right owner, the whole of that was to be restored: AND SHALL ADD THE FIFTH PART MORE THERETO; to the principal, see Leviticus 5:16 but Maimonides l says, this was an instruction to add a fifth to a fifth; and Aben Ezra takes the word to be plural, and observes, that the least of many is two, and so two fifths were to be added to the principal, but the first sense seems best: [AND] GIVE IT UNTO HIM TO WHOM APPERTAINETH; as, to his neighbour, who had deposited anything in his hands; or his partner, he had any wa

5. THE TRESPASS OFFERING Chapter S 5:14-6:7 _ 1. The trespass against Jehovah (Leviticus 5:14)_ 2. The trespass against man (Leviticus 6:1) The brief section which gives instruction concerning the trespass offering contains twice the statement, “Jehovah spake unto Moses” (Leviticus 5:14 and Leviticus 6:1). Sin is here looked upon as an injury done. The trespass offering was always a ram without a blemish out of the flock (verses 15, 18; 6:6). First the wrong is mentioned done in holy things of Jehovah or something done against His commands, and secondly, wrongs done against his neighbor, which Jehovah

LEVITICUS 5:14 TO LEVITICUS 6:7. THE TRESPASS OR GUILT OFFERING. This is of two kinds, though the principle of amendment is the same. The first kind is stated vaguely; committing a trespass (the word means acting unfaithfully or treacherously; it is coupled with sinning unwittingly in Leviticus 5:15; Leviticus 5:17). The offence consists in treating what is Yahweh's as if it were not Yahweh's, _i.e._ in-correctness, really unintentional, connected with some offering. If not unintentional, the penalty is different (Numbers 15:30). The offerer i

ADD. See note on Leviticus 5:16. FIFTH PART. twenty per cent. Zacchseus gave much more (Luke 19:8). IN THE DAY. when. See App-18. Note the order of the "offerings", and their "laws". In the former (God's side), "peace" made, comes in centre. In the latter, "sin" comes before "peace" experienced. See note on Leviticus 7:11....

(_c_) Leviticus 6:1-7 [Heb. 5:20 26]. _Damage done to the property of another by fraud or violence_ This section of the laws regulating the Guilt-Offering has a special heading like that in Leviticus 5:14, introducing those laws, whereas the whole of the legislation with respect to the Sin-Offering has but one introductory heading in Leviticus 4:1. Many of these offences are dealt with in Exodus 22:7-13 where the legal procedure is set forth; here they are regarded as a trespass against the Lord, and a sacrifice is demanded. It is thought that the cases treated here are those which are disclosed by the evil doer volun