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Selected Verse: Leviticus 5:17 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Le 5:17 |
Strong Concordance |
And if a soul [05315] sin [02398], and commit [06213] any [0259] of these things which are forbidden to be done [06213] by the commandments [04687] of the LORD [03068]; though he wist [03045] it not, yet is he guilty [0816], and shall bear [05375] his iniquity [05771]. |
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King James |
And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
if a soul sin . . . though he wist it not, yet is he guilty--This also refers to holy things, and it differs from the preceding in being one of the doubtful cases,--that is, where conscience suspects, though the understanding be in doubt whether criminality or sin has been committed. The Jewish rabbis give, as an example, the case of a person who, knowing that "the fat of the inwards" is not to be eaten, religiously abstained from the use of it; but should a dish happen to have been at table in which he had reason to suspect some portion of that meat was intermingled, and he had, inadvertently, partaken of that unlawful viand, he was bound to bring a ram as a trespass offering [Lev 5:16]. These provisions were all designed to impress the conscience with the sense of responsibility to God and keep alive on the hearts of the people a salutary fear of doing any secret wrong. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Though he wist it not - Ignorance of the Law, or even of the consequences of the act at the time that it was committed, was not to excuse him from the obligation to offer the sacrifice. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
The former law concerns the alienation of holy things from sacred to common use; this may concern other miscarriages about holy things, and holy duties, as may be gathered from Lev 5:19, where this is said to be a trespass against the Lord, not in a general sense, for so every sin was; but in a proper and peculiar sense. |
16 And he shall make amends [07999] for the harm [02398] that he hath done in the holy thing [06944], and shall add [03254] the fifth part [02549] thereto, and give [05414] it unto the priest [03548]: and the priest [03548] shall make an atonement [03722] for him with the ram [0352] of the trespass offering [0817], and it shall be forgiven [05545] him.
19 It is a trespass offering [0817]: he hath certainly [0816] trespassed [0816] against the LORD [03068].