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Numbers 5:7

King James Version (KJV)

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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.

Numbers 5:7 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Numbers 5:7

Theological / Devotional

Recompense his trespass. Literally, “return his guilt.” Here the abstract “guilt” is used for the concrete thing that he stole, or whatever he may have realized from its disposal.

With the principal. Literally, “with its head,” that is, in full.

Fifth part. Note a similar compensation in Lev. 6:5; 22:14 (see Lev. 27:11, 27, 31).

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