Numbers 5:7

_THEN THEY SHALL CONFESS THEIR SIN WHICH THEY HAVE DONE: AND HE SHALL RECOMPENSE HIS TRESPASS WITH THE PRINCIPAL THEREOF, AND ADD UNTO IT THE FIFTH PART THEREOF, AND GIVE IT UNTO HIM AGAINST WHOM HE HATH TRESPASSED._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

1-10 The camp was to be cleansed. The purity of the church must be kept as carefully as the peace and order of it. Every polluted Israelite must be separated. The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable. The greater profession of religion any house or family makes, the more they are obliged to put away iniquity far from them. If a man overreach or defraud his brother in any matter, it is a trespass against the Lord, who strictly charges and commands us to do justly. What is to be done when a man's awakened conscience charges him with guilt of this kind, though done long ago? He must confess his sin, confess it to God, confess it to his neighbour, and take shame to himself; though it go against him to own himself in a lie, yet he must do it. Satisfaction must be made for the offence done to God, as well as for the loss sustained by the neighbour; restitution in that case is not e...

Verse Numbers 5:7. _SHALL CONFESS THEIR SIN_] Without _confession_ or _acknowledgment_ of sin, there was no hope of mercy held out. _HE SHALL RECOMPENSE_] For without _restitution_, in every possible case, God will not for give the iniquity of a man's sin. How can any person in a case of defraud, with his neighbour's property in his possession, expect to receive mercy from the hand of a just and holy God? _See this subject considered in Clarke's notes on "_Genesis 42:38_"_....

The law of restitution: a passage supplementary to Leviticus 5:5, etc., Leviticus 6:5, etc. Numbers 5:7 RECOMPENSE HIS TRESPASS - i. e. make restitution to the person whom he has injured. Numbers 5:8 WHEREBY AN ATONEMENT SHALL BE MADE FOR HIM - literally, “which shall clear him of guilt as to it,” i. e. as to the trespass. Numbers 5:10 AND EVERY MAN’S HALLOWED THINGS SHALL BE HIS - i. e. the pri

EXPOSITION THE UNCLEAN TO BE REMOVED (Numbers 5:1). NUMBERS 5:2 EVERY LEPER. The law of the leper had been given in great detail in Leviticus 13:1 and Leviticus 14:1, and it had been already ordered that he should be put out of the camp (Le Leviticus 13:46, and cf. Leviticus 14:3). Every one that hath an issue. These d

THEN THEY SHALL CONFESS THEIR SIN WHICH THEY HAVE DONE,.... The form of which confession, according to Fagius, was, O Lord, I am guilty of death, I have deserved to be stoned for this sin, or to be strangled for this trespass, or to be burnt for this crime, c. AND HE SHALL RECOMPENSE HIS TRESPASS WITH THE PRINCIPAL THEREOF, AND ADD UNTO IT THE FIFTH [PART] THEREOF paying the whole of whatsoever he had in any manner defrauded his neighbour of, to which he was to add a fifth part of that; that is, as Aben Ezra interprets it, it he confesses of himself, but if there are witnesses of it he must add two fifths, and some say a fifth of a fifth: AND GIVE [IT] UNTO [HIM] AGAINST WHOM HE HATH TRESPASSED; as a satisfaction for the injury done him....

4. THE SANCTIFICATION OF THE CAMP AND THE NAZARITE CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Concerning the leper, the issue and defilement of the dead (Numbers 5:1)_ 2. Concerning restitution (Numbers 5:5) 3. Concerning the wife suspected of adultery (Numbers 5:11) So far we had the outward arrangement of the camp. This chapter tells us that the camp had to be holy and therefore must be cleansed from that which defiles. Divine directions are given concerning the unclean person, the restitution of anything unjustly taken and what is to be done with a wife suspected of adultery. Leprosy could not be tolerated in the camp in the midst whereof Jehovah dwelt. The persons who had an issue and had come in touch with the de

THE RESTITUTION OF MISAPPROPRIATED PROPERTY. This regulation supplements the law contained in Leviticus 6:1, which, dealing with the restitution of property wrongfully appropriated, omits to explain how it is to be disposed of, if the owner has died without leaving any kinsman to whom restitution may be made. The present enactment enjoins that the property in such a case shall pass to the priest as Yahweh's representative. Numbers 5:9. HEAVE OFFERING: better, contribution, the word meaning in strictness anything heaved (or lifted) from a larger aggregate....

RECOMPENSE. return back. TRESPASS. Hebrew. _'asham._ App-44....

Payments in compensation for wrongs. Part of this section (Numbers 5:6) is supplementary to the regulations in Leviticus 6:1-7. It is there laid down that if anyone incur guilt through wronging his neighbour by robbery, or oppression, by appropriating something committed to his keeping as a deposit, or by concealing the fact that he has found lost property, he must confess, and restore the property _plus_one-fifth, and offer to God as an atonement for his sin a guilt-offering of a ram. It is, to use a modern phrase, -conscience money." In the present passage it is further provided that if the neighbour whom he has wronged be dead, and there be no _gô"çl_(see note below) to whom the property can be restored, it is to be paid to the priest. The ram of the guilt-offering is, of course, to be offered