Add parallel Print Page Options

“When a person sins and commits a trespass[a] against the Lord by deceiving his fellow citizen[b] in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen,[c] or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely[d] concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin[e]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 6:2 tn Heb “trespasses a trespass” (verb and direct object from the same Hebrew root מַעַל, maʿal). See the note on 5:15.
  2. Leviticus 6:2 tn Or “neighbor” (ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NASB “companion”; TEV “a fellow-Israelite.”
  3. Leviticus 6:2 tn Heb “has extorted his neighbor”; ASV “oppressed”; NRSV “defrauded.”
  4. Leviticus 6:3 tn Heb “and swears on falsehood”; cf. CEV “deny something while under oath.”
  5. Leviticus 6:3 tn Heb “on one from all which the man shall do to sin in them.”

“If anyone sins and is unfaithful to the Lord(A) by deceiving a neighbor(B) about something entrusted to them or left in their care(C) or about something stolen, or if they cheat(D) their neighbor, or if they find lost property and lie about it,(E) or if they swear falsely(F) about any such sin that people may commit—

Read full chapter