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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 5:1-13

Special occasions are mentioned on which sin-offerings are to be made with a particular confession of the offence for which atonement is sought Leviticus 5:5.Leviticus 5:1Swearing - Adjuration. The case appears to be that of one who has been put upon his oath as a witness by a magistrate, and fails to utter all he has seen and heard (compare the marginal references. and Proverbs 29:24; Numbers 5:21).Leviticus 5:2-3Hid from him - Either through forgetfulness or indifference, so that purification... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 5:1

Leviticus 5:1. And hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness The meaning seems to be, If a person sin, in not revealing the voice of swearing, which he has seen, that is, been a witness to, or been present when it was said, or known by sufficient information from others. But it must be observed, that the word, אלה , alah, here used, probably means cursing, blasphemy, or execration, and that either against one’s neighbour, or against God. This seems to be principally intended... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 5:1-13

The sin offering: its uses (5:1-13)Sin offerings could be offered only for those sins that people committed unintentionally, such as through carelessness, haste, accident or weakness. When people realized they were guilty of such sins, they had to make confession and bring a sin offering (5:1-6; cf. 4:13,22,27). No sacrifice was available for deliberate or premeditated sins (Numbers 15:30). The sin offering therefore showed up the weakness of the sacrificial system. It provided only for those... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 5:1

soul = a person. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13 . sin. Hebrew. chata. App-44 . and hear = because he heard. swearing = adjuration. is = "he [is]". iniquity = perverseness. Hebrew. 'avail. App-44 . Put here by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause) for the punishment due to it. App-6 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Leviticus 5:1

The first thirteen verses of this chapter are a continuation of the divine instructions regarding sin-offerings outlined in the previous chapter. Special situations in which sin-offerings were required are listed as follows:(1) the failure to give testimony (Leviticus 5:1);(2) incurring uncleanness by touching an unclean object or an unclean person (Leviticus 5:2,3);(3) making a rash vow (Leviticus 5:4). The required sin-offering is outlined (Leviticus 5:5,6).Leviticus 5:7-13 are a kind of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 5:1

Leviticus 5:1. And if a soul sin, &c.— This verse maybe translated in the following manner, which clearly explains it: If any person, being adjured as a witness, shall offend in not discovering what he has seen or known, he shall bear his iniquity. Houbigant, however, is of opinion, that this is not a just interpretation; and, accordingly, he translates it thus: If any man shall sin, using words of execration, and if any one shall hear him using them, or shall be a proper witness, whether... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 5:1

1. if a soul . . . hear the voice of swearing—or, according to some, "the words of adjuration." A proclamation was issued calling any one who could give information, to come before the court and bear testimony to the guilt of a criminal; and the manner in which witnesses were interrogated in the Jewish courts of justice was not by swearing them directly, but adjuring them by reading the words of an oath: "the voice of swearing." The offense, then, for the expiation of which this law provides,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 5:1-13

4. The sin offering 4:1-5:13The sin offering was a very important offering since it was to be offered before any of the others. It also played a key role on the Day of Atonement. Ancient Near Easterners offered certain offerings before God incorporated these into the Mosaic Law. Moses previously mentioned burnt offerings in Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:4; Genesis 13:18; Genesis 22; Genesis 26:25; Genesis 33:20; and Genesis 35:1-7, and peace offerings in Genesis 31:54; Genesis 46:1. However the sin... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 5:1-19

The Sin Offering and the Guilt Ofeering (continued)1-6. Special cases in which it is proper to offer a Sin Offering. Such are the withholding of testimony (Leviticus 5:1), touching a carcase or unclean person or thing (Leviticus 5:2-3), making rash oaths (Leviticus 5:4).1. Sin, and hear] RV ’sin, in that he heareth’: cp. Proverbs 29:24; Judges 17:2. 2. See Leviticus 11:27-28, Leviticus 11:31-40; Leviticus 15:7. If it be hidden from him] Vulgate renders, ’if he forgetteth his uncleauness,’ i.e.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 5:1

V(1) And hear the voice of swearing.—Better, because he heard the voice of adjuration, and might be a witness, whether he hath seen the offence or known of it, if he doth not tell it. Having laid dawn in the former chapter the regulations about the sin offering, and having shown how these regulations are to be carried out when the offence against the Divine law is inadvertently committed by the spiritual head of the people, by the whole congregation, by the sovereign ruler of the nation, and by... read more