Numbers 5:7

Then he must confess the sin that he has done. He must completely pay back the price of his guilt and add to the price one-fifth more. He must give this to the one he has wronged.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6“Speak to the people of Israel. When a man or woman commits any sin such as people do to one another, and is unfaithful to me, that person is guilty.

8But if the wronged person has no close relative to receive the payment, he must pay the price for his guilt to me through a priest, along with a ram to atone for himself.

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Cross References

Leviticus 5:5When someone is guilty in any of these things, he must confess whatever sin he has committed.

Leviticus 5:16He must satisfy Yahweh for what he had done wrong in connection with what is holy, and he must add one-fifth to it and give it to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and that person will be forgiven.

Leviticus 6:5In addition, in any matter in which he swore falsely, he must restore it in full and he must add one-fifth of the value of it and pay it all to the owner on the day that he is found guilty.

Leviticus 26:40Yet if they confess their sins and their fathers' sin, and their treason by which they were unfaithful to me, and also their walking against me—

Job 33:27Then that person will sing in front of other people and say, 1 'I sinned and perverted that which was right, 1 but my sin was not punished. 1

Proverbs 28:13The one who hides his sins will not prosper, 1 but the one who confesses them and forsakes them will be shown mercy. 1

Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:2-11

The Unclean to Be Removed. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: 3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. 4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the Lord spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel. 5 And the… Read the whole commentary →

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