Numeri 5:7

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

dan zal hij de zonden die hij begaan heeft belijden en dat wat hij zich wederrechtelijk toegeeigend heeft, met het vijfde der waarde er bij, teruggeven, en wel aan den mens dien hij tekort gedaan heeft.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
en zij zullen hunne zonde bekennen, welke zij gedaan hebben, en zullen hunne schuld verzoenen door de hoofdsom te geven, en daarenboven het vijfde deel van deze er bij te doen, en het geven aan dengene, aan wien zij zich bezondigd hebben.

Staten Vertaling
En zij zullen hun zonde, welke zij gedaan hebben, belijden; daarna zal hij zijn schuld weder uitkeren, naar de hoofdsom daarvan, en derzelfder vijfde deel zal hij daarboven toedoen, en zal het dien geven, aan wien hij zich verschuldigd heeft.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

confess: Leviticus 5:5, Leviticus 26:40, Joshua 7:19, Job 33:27, Job 33:28, Psalms 32:5, Proverbs 28:13, 1 John 1:8-10

and he shall: Not only confession, but restitution, in every possible case, is necessary in order to obtain forgiveness.

with the principal: Leviticus 5:15, Leviticus 6:4-7, Leviticus 7:7, Luke 19:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:1 - he shall Exodus 22:9 - for all manner of trespass Leviticus 5:16 - the fifth Leviticus 6:5 - restore Matthew 3:6 - confessing

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then they shall confess their sin which they have done,.... The form of which confession, according to Fagius, was, O Lord, I am guilty of death, I have deserved to be stoned for this sin, or to be strangled for this trespass, or to be burnt for this crime, c.

and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth [part] thereof paying the whole of whatsoever he had in any manner defrauded his neighbour of, to which he was to add a fifth part of that; that is, as Aben Ezra interprets it, it he confesses of himself, but if there are witnesses of it he must add two fifths, and some say a fifth of a fifth:

and give [it] unto [him] against whom he hath trespassed; as a satisfaction for the injury done him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The law of restitution: a passage supplementary to Leviticus 5:5, etc., Leviticus 6:5, etc.

Numbers 5:7

Recompense his trespass - i. e. make restitution to the person whom he has injured.

Numbers 5:8

Whereby an atonement shall be made for him - literally, “which shall clear him of guilt as to it,” i. e. as to the trespass.

Numbers 5:10

And every man’s hallowed things shall be his - i. e. the priest’s. The heave offerings Numbers 5:9 and dedicatory offerings (e. g. first-fruits) were to be the perquisite of the officiating priests.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 5:7. Shall confess their sin — Without confession or acknowledgment of sin, there was no hope of mercy held out.

He shall recompense — For without restitution, in every possible case, God will not for give the iniquity of a man's sin. How can any person in a case of defraud, with his neighbour's property in his possession, expect to receive mercy from the hand of a just and holy God?

See this subject considered in Clarke's notes on "Genesis 42:38".