Numbers 5:8

_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....

8_But if the man have no kinsman. _This passage, which I have inserted from chapter 5 is connected (213) indeed with another subject, and yet, because it directly refers to the right of the priests, it was necessary to remove it to this place, especially since it expresses that kind of sacrifice which Moses has lately adverted to, _i.e., _when they expiated the crime of theft. God did not indeed desire that the priests should be enriched by others’ losses, nor that thieves should go free, if they offered what they had stolen to the priests; but, if there were no one to whom they could restore it, He would have their houses delivered from (the proceeds of) their sin; and with very good reason, since otherwise the very gross offender would have never hesitated to plunder the goods of a dead man, if he were without heirs. First, therefore, He commanded their property to be restored to the l...

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 5:8. _IF THE MAN HAVE NO KINSMAN_] The Jews think that this law respects the _stranger_ and the _sojourner_ only, because every Israelite is in a state of affinity to all the rest; but there might be a _stranger_ in the camp who has no relative in any of the tribes of Israel....

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 RESTITUTION TO BE MADE FOR TRESPASSES (Numbers 5:5-4). NUMBERS 5:6 SHALL COMMIT ANY SIN THAT MEN COMMIT. Literally, "[one] of all the transgressions of men," i.e; the wrongs current amongst men. To do a TRESPASS AGAINST THE Lord. This qualifies the former expression, and restricts its reference to the sins mentioned in Le Numbers 6:2, Numbers 6:8, Numbers 6:5, viz; wron

BUT IF A MAN HAVE NO KINSMAN TO RECOMPENSE THE TRESPASS TO,.... This supposes that if a man should die, against whom the trespass is, before the restitution is made, then it shall be made to his heirs; and if he has none, then it was to be given to the priest, as after directed: the Jews g generally understand this of a proselyte, that has no heirs, for they say, there is no Israelite but has kinsmen, a brother or a son, or some one or other near of kin to him, of his father's family, even up to Jacob: LET THE TRESPASS BE RECOMPENSED UNTO THE LORD, [EVEN] TO THE PRIEST; that is, let the principal, with the fifth part, which is the recompence for the trespass committed, be given to the priest of the Lord, which is the same as if it was given to him, he being his minister: BESIDE THE RAM OF THE ATONEMENT, WHEREBY AN ATONEMENT SHALL BE MADE FOR HIM; which, in this case, was ordered to be...

KINSMAN Hebrew, "goel", Redemption (Kinsman type). (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _ ATONEMENT (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 29:33) _...

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....