Lev 5:1, 20:16-17, Num 9:13 | TSK | STEP | He that sins in concealing his knowledge; in touching an unclean thing; or in making an oath. His trespass offering, of the flock; of fowls; or of flour. The trespass offering in sacrilege; and in sins of ignorance. a soul. hear. the voice of swearing.{Kol alah,} rather, "the voice of adjuration," [phónén orkismou,] as the LXX. render; for this does not relate to the duty of informing against a common swearer, but to the case of a person who, being adjured by the civil magistrate to answer upon oath, refuses to declare what he knows upon the subject--such an one shall bear his iniquity--shall be considered as guilty in the sight of God of the transgression which he has endeavoured to conceal, and must expect to be punished for hiding the iniquity with which he was acquainted. bear.

Leviticus 5:1

1 He that sins in concealing his knowledge;

2 in touching an unclean thing;

4 or in making an oath.

6 His trespass offering, of the flock;

7 of fowls;

11 or of flour.

14 The trespass offering in sacrilege;

17 and in sins of ignorance.

a soul.

15,17; 4:2; Eze 18:4,20

hear.

Ex 22:11; Jud 17:2; 1Ki 8:31; 22:16; 2Ch 18:15; Pr 29:24; 30:9

Mt 26:63

the voice of swearing.{Kol alah,} rather, "the voice of adjuration," [phónén orkismou,] as the LXX. render; for this does not relate to the duty of informing against a common swearer, but to the case of a person who, being adjured by the civil magistrate to answer upon oath, refuses to declare what he knows upon the subject--such an one shall bear his iniquity--shall be considered as guilty in the sight of God of the transgression which he has endeavoured to conceal, and must expect to be punished for hiding the iniquity with which he was acquainted.

bear.

17; 7:18; 17:16; 19:8; 20:17; Nu 9:13; Ps 38:4; Isa 53:11; 1Pe 2:24

Leviticus 20:16-17

And if a woman.We are assured by Herodotus (in Euterp.) that the abominations here referred to existed among the Egyptians, and even formed part of their superstitious religious system, and we have reason to believe that they were not uncommon among the Canaanites. (See ch. 18:24, 25). Need we wonder then, that God should have made laws of this nature, and appointed the punishment of death for these crimes? This one observation will account for many of those strange prohibitions which we find in the Mosaic law.

and the beast.

Ex 19:13; 21:28,32; Heb 12:20

18:9; Ge 20:12; De 27:22; 2Sa 13:12; Eze 22:11

Numbers 9:13

forbeareth.

15:30,31; 19:13; Ge 17:14; Ex 12:15; Le 17:4,10,14-16; Heb 2:3

Heb 6:6; 10:26-29; 12:25

because.

2,3,7

bear his sin.

5:31; Le 20:20; 22:9; Eze 23:49; Heb 9:28