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Leviticus 6:5

Leviticus 6:5
Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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.

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Leviticus 6:1-7

This is the latter part of the law of the trespass-offering: the former part, which concerned trespasses about holy things, we had in the close of the foregoing chapter; this concerns trespasses in…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Leviticus 6:1-7

(c) Lev 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 Lev 5:14,…