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Selected Verse: Numbers 5:8 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Nu 5:8 |
King James |
But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. |
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The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
kinsman
Hebrew, "goel", Redemption (Kinsman type).
(See Scofield) - (Isa 59:20).
atonement
(See Scofield) - (Exo 29:33) |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
No kinsman - This supposes the person injured to be dead or gone, into some unknown place, and the person injured to be known to the injurer. To the priest - Whom God appointed as his deputy to receive his dues, and take them to his own use, that so he might more chearfully and entirely devote himself to the ministration of holy things. This is an additional explication to that law, Lev 6:2, and for the sake thereof it seems here to be repeated. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
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. |
33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
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;