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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Numbers 5:8

No kinsman — This supposes the person injured to be dead or gone, into some unknown place, and the person injured to be known to the injurer. To the priest — Whom God appointed as his deputy to receive his dues, and take them to his own use, that so he might more chearfully and entirely devote himself to the ministration of holy things. This is an additional explication to that law, Leviticus 6:2, and for the sake thereof it seems here to be repeated.

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See also Numbers 5:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Numbers 5:8. _IF THE MAN HAVE NO KINSMAN_] The Jews think that this law respects the _stranger_ and the _sojourner_ only, because every Israelite is in a state of affinity to all the rest; but t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The law of restitution: a passage supplementary to Leviticus 5:5, etc., Leviticus 6:5, etc. Numbers 5:7 RECOMPENSE HIS TRESPASS - i. e. make restitution to the perso

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. THE SANCTIFICATION OF THE CAMP AND THE NAZARITE CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Concerning the leper, the issue and defilement of the dead (Numbers 5:1)_ 2. Concerning restitution (Numbers 5:5) 3. Concerning th...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RESTITUTION OF MISAPPROPRIATED PROPERTY. This regulation supplements the law contained in Leviticus 6:1, which, dealing with the restitution of property wrongfully appropriated, omits to explain h...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The verse deals with the case in which the injured person dies before restitution has been made to him, and leaves no representative. _kinsman_ Heb. _gô"çl_. A technical term of considerable importanc...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN THEY SHALL CONFESS THEIR SIN WHICH THEY HAVE DONE: AND HE SHALL RECOMPENSE HIS TRESPASS WITH THE PRINCIPAL THEREOF, AND ADD UNTO IT THE FIFTH PART THEREOF, AND GIVE IT UNTO HIM AGAINST WHOM HE H...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:8 kinsman (a-7) 'One who has the right of redemption,' as Leviticus 25:25 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    VARIOUS CEREMONIAL LAWS 1-4. On the seclusion of lepers and unclean persons, see Leviticus 13-15. 5-10. On the law of restitution, see Leviticus 5:14 to Leviticus 6:7, to which the present passage is...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אִם ־אֵ֨ין לָ † אִ֜ישׁ גֹּאֵ֗ל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But if the (c) man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, [even] to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    But if. Moses does not mention this case, Leviticus vi. 2, 5. Here he determines that the heirs, if known, must be entitled to the restitution. A Hebrew could not die without an heir; but a proselyte...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8_But if the man have no kinsman. _This passage, which I have inserted from chapter 5 is connected (213) indeed with another subject, and yet, because it directly refers to the right of the priests, i...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Let us pursue the study of the book. Chapter 5 presents three things, in connection with the purity of the camp, looked at as the dwelling-place of God, and in connection with our pilgrim passage thro...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT IF A MAN HAVE NO KINSMAN TO RECOMPENSE THE TRESPASS TO,.... This supposes that if a man should die, against whom the trespass is, before the restitution is made, then it shall be made to his heirs...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, [even] to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The vncleane are remoued out of the campe. 5 Restitution is to be made in trespasses. 11 The triall of Iealousie. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Commaund the children of Israel, that...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, if he himself had died and there was no near relative to receive the ransom-money of the guilty one, LET THE TRESPASS BE RECOMPENSED UNT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    RESTITUTION IN TRESPASSES...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    DEFILEMENT CALLING FOR ISOLATION (vs.1-4) The principle of 1 Corinthians 5:6, "a little leaven leavens the whole lump" was just as true in the Old Testament as in the new. However, the defilement ofN...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 The camp was to be cleansed. The purity of the church must be kept as carefully as the peace and order of it. Every polluted Israelite must be separated. The wisdom from above is first pure, the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IF THE MAN HAVE NO KINSMAN, which might be the case commonly with proselytes, if not with Israelites. This also suppposeth the person injured to be dead or gone away into some unknown place, and the p...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    ''And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: both male an...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 5:8 man H376 relative H1350 (H8802) restitution H7725 (H8687) wrong H817 restitution H7725 (H8716) wrong...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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