Leviticus 6:5

or anything else that must be given back that you lied about. You must pay full compensation plus a fifth of the value, and give it to the owner as soon as you accept that you are guilty of sin.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4If you have sinned and become guilty you must return what you have stolen or cheated from your victims, the deposit you took, the lost property you found,

6Then you must take to the priest your guilt offering for the Lord: a ram without defects of the appropriate value from the flock.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:1“Anyone who steals an ox or a sheep and kills or sells it must pay back five oxen for one ox and four sheep for one sheep.

Exodus 22:7If someone gives his neighbor money or possessions to be kept safe and they are stolen from the neighbor's house, if the thief is caught they must pay back double.

Exodus 30:7Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he takes care of the lamps.

Numbers 5:7and must confess their sin. They have to pay the full amount of compensation plus one-fifth of its value, and give this to the person they have wronged.

2 Samuel 12:6He must repay that lamb with four of his own for doing this, for being so heartless.”

Proverbs 6:30People don't condemn a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he's hungry.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 6:2-8

Law of the Trespass-Offering. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord , and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; 3 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: 4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore… Read the whole commentary →

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