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Leviticus 6 · a question people ask

If I wrong a person, have I wronged God?

In the text

In this law, yes. The one who "deals falsely with his neighbor" also "commits a trespass against the LORD" (6:2). Numbers says the same: when a man or woman commits any sin "so as to trespass against the LORD" (Numbers 5:6), "he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty" (Numbers 5:7). The neighbor gets back what he lost, with a fifth more (6:5), and the LORD receives the trespass offering (6:6).

The verses

““If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against the LORD, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,”
Leviticus 6:2 · World English Bible
“or any thing about which he has sworn falsely: he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty. He shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.”
Leviticus 6:5-6 · World English Bible
““Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against the LORD, and that soul is guilty, then he shall confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.”
Numbers 5:6-7 · World English Bible

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Leviticus 6: It shall not go out

Cheating a neighbor is "a trespass against the LORD" (6:2): the wrong is repaid in full with a fifth added, and only then comes the offering (6:5-6). From 6:9 the law turns to the priests: the altar fire "shall not go out" (6:13), the priests eat what is "most holy" in a holy place, and a sin offering whose blood entered the Tent is burned, not eaten (6:30).

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