Leviticus 6:5

You must not only return anything like that to its owner, but you must also pay to the owner one-fifth of its value.

Translation for Translators

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

4or whatever you lied about.

6You must also bring to the Supreme Priest a ram to be an offering to me in order that you will no longer be guilty. The ram that you bring must be one that has no defects, one that has the value that has been officially determined.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:1Yahweh also said, “If someone steals a bull or a sheep, and then slaughters it to sell it or to sacrifice it or sells its meat to someone else, he must pay five bulls for the bull that he stole, and he must pay four sheep for the sheep that he stole.

Exodus 22:7Suppose someone gives to another person some money or other valuable goods and asks him to guard them in his house for a while. If those things are stolen from that person’s house, if the thief is caught, he must pay back twice as much as he stole.

Exodus 30:7Aaron must burn sweet-smelling incense on this altar. He must burn some every morning when he takes care of the lamps,

Numbers 5:7That person must confess that he or she is guilty, and he or she must pay to the person to whom wrong was done what others consider to be a suitable/proper payment for what he has done, and he must pay an extra 20 percent.

2 Samuel 12:6But before he is executed, he should pay back to the poor man four lambs for doing this, and for not having pity on the poor man.”

Proverbs 6:30We do not despise a thief if he steals some food because he is very 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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