◄ Leviticus 6:4 ►
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New Revised Standard Version
when you have sinned and realize your guilt, and would restore what you took by robbery or by fraud or the deposit that was committed to you, or the lost thing that you found,

Contemporary English Version
When this happens, you must return what doesn't belong to you

New American Bible
when someone has thus done wrong and is guilty, that person shall restore the thing that was stolen, the item unjustly retained, the item left as deposit, or the lost article that was found

Douay-Rheims Bible
Being convicted of the offence, he shall restore

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Being convicted of the offence, he shall restore

because

Leviticus 4:13-15 And if all the multitude of Israel shall be ignorant, and through ignorance shall do that which is against the commandment of the Lord, . . .

Leviticus 5:3,4 And if he touch any thing of the uncleanness of man, according to any uncleanness wherewith he is wont to be defiled: and having forgotten it, come afterwards to know it, he shall be guilty of an offence. . . .

which he

Genesis 21:25 And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.

Job 20:19 Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

Job 24:2 Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.

Isaiah 59:6 Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.

Ezekiel 18:7,12,18 And hath not wronged any man: but hath restored the pledge to the debtor, hath taken nothing away by violence: hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment: . . .

Amos 3:10 And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.

Micah 2:2 Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.

Zephaniah 1:9 And I will visit in that day upon every one that entereth arrogantly over the threshold: them that fill the house of the Lord their God with iniquity and deceit.

Context
Sins Requiring a Guilt Offering
…3Or shall find a thing lost, and denying it, shall also swear falsely, or shall do any other of the many things, wherein men are wont to sin: 4Being convicted of the offence, he shall restore5All that he would have gotten by fraud, in the principal, and the fifth part besides, to the owner, whom he wronged.…
Cross References
Leviticus 24:18
He that killeth a beast, shall make it good that is to say, shall give beast for beast.

Leviticus 24:21
He that striketh a beast, shall render another. He that striketh a man shall be punished.

Numbers 5:7
They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself, and the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have sinned.

Ezekiel 33:15
And if that wicked man restore the pledge, and render what he had robbed, and walk in the commandments of life, and do no unjust thing: he shall surely live, and shall not die.

Malachi 1:13
And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed it away, saith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of rapine the lame, and the sick, and brought in an offering: shall I accept it at your hands, saith the Lord?

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