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Leviticus 5:19

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It is a guilt offering; he was certainly guilty before the LORD.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

It is a trespass-offering: he is certainly guilty before Jehovah.

KJV

It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the Lord.

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This verse in Leviticus 5

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things

on Leviticus 5:17-19

The last case is a man who suspects he has done wrong and cannot say what. He wist it not, a phrase that occurs only here and in verse 18 across the whole of Scripture, and the verse holds him guilty and returns to the words that opened the chapter, that he shall bear his iniquity. The ram is required as before and no fifth part is named, since a harm nobody can measure has no sum attached to it. Verse 19 closes with a bare naming, that it is a trespass offering and he hath certainly trespassed against the LORD.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

It is a trespass offering,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

if a soul sin . . . though he wist it not, yet is he guilty--This also refers to holy things, and it differs from the preceding in being one of the doubtful cases,--that is, where conscience suspects, though the understanding be in doubt whether criminality or sin has been committed.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

He hath certainly trespassed - And because he hath sinned, therefore he must bring a sacrifice. On no other ground shall he be accepted by the Lord. Reader, how dost thou stand in the sight of thy Maker? On the subject of this chapter it may be proper to make the following reflections.

The words behind it

5 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אָשָׁ֖ם[is] a guilt offering

    ʾashamH817 →46 times

  • ה֑וּאit

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • אָשֹׁ֥םcertainly <to be guilty>

    ʾashomH816 →35 times

  • אָשַׁ֖םhe was guilty

    ʾashamH816 →35 times

  • לַיהוָֽה׃ פto Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 51:4Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.6 worksMalachi 3:8Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.2 works2 Corinthians 5:19–21that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.2 worksEzra 10:2Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.2 worksJoshua 22:15They went to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead and said to them,2 worksLeviticus 6:2“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Malachi 3:8

    Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 3:9–10

      Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;

    • Matthew 22:21

      “Caesar’s,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

    • Mark 12:17

      Then Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” And they marveled at Him.

    • Psalms 29:2

      Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness.

  • Through

    Psalms 51:4

    Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 12:13–14

      Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.

    • Luke 15:21

      The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

    • Genesis 20:6

      Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did…

    • Genesis 39:9

      No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin…

Where this verse is studied

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About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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