Luk 19:8 | TNotes | STEP | 19:8 I will give them back four times: Normal restitution for a wrong committed was to add twenty percent to the value of the goods lost (Lev 5:16 ; Num 5:7 ), though the penalty for theft of an animal was four or five times its value (Exod 22:1 ). Zacchaeus apparently regarded his financial gains as theft and promised the required restitution.

bLev 5:16►

cNum 5:7►

dExod 22:1►

‏ Luke 19:8

19:8 ^a I will give them back four times: Normal restitution for a wrong committed was to add twenty percent to the value of the goods lost (Lev 5:16 ^b; Num 5:7 ^c), though the penalty for theft of an animal was four or five times its value (Exod 22:1 ^d). Zacchaeus apparently regarded his financial gains as theft and promised the required restitution.