7 Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.
And whoever is responsible for any such sin, let him make a statement openly of his wrongdoing;
And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;
He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.
Then having taken off his linen robes and put on other clothing, he is to take it away into a clean place, outside the tent-circle. The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it is never to go out; every morning the priest is to put wood on it, placing the burned offering in order on it, and there the fat of the peace-offering is to be burned. Let the fire be kept burning on the altar at all times; it is never to go out. And this is the law for the meal offering: it is to be offered to the Lord before the altar by the sons of Aaron.
As is the sin-offering, so is the offering for wrongdoing; there is one law for them: the priest who makes the offering to take away sin, he is to have it.
I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)
If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us. If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil. If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.
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Commentary on Numbers 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 5
In this chapter we have,
Num 5:1-10
Here is,
Num 5:11-31
We have here the law concerning the solemn trial of a wife whose husband was jealous of her. Observe,