The following show that God as a
law-giver is not only concerned with right and wrong, truth and justice with
regard to the way His people behave toward Him, but also with regard to how His
people act inter se. So that we find Him
giving instructions regarding, lying to another with regard to a chattel
entrusted to him, example a bailment, or just with regard to fellowship, or a
thing taken away be violence, deceitful conduct towards a neighbor, larceny by
finding, or lying concerning the thing found, or swearing a false oath. The
Lord declared all or any of these things to be sin not just against the
neighbor or person injured, but against God Himself; for it is God says, “a
trespass against me.”
“Therefore, since you have sinned,
you shall restore the thing taken violently away, or the thing which has been
gotten by deceit, or that which you refused to return being entrusted to you, or
that which was found and not returned, or that about which you have sworn
falsely, you shall restore the principal, and add a fifth part on top of it and
give it to the person deprived or robbed in any of the ways detailed above.
In addition having made
restitution, he is also commanded to bring a trespass offering unto the Lord, a
ram taken out of the flock without spot or blemish, and deliver it unto the
priest; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord and it
shall be forgiven him. More
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