Levítico 5:16

16 Assim fará restituição pelo pecado que houver cometido na coisa sagrada, e ainda lhe acrescentará a quinta parte, e a dará ao sacerdote; e com o carneiro da oferta pela culpa, o sacerdote fará expiação por ele, e ele será perdoado.

Levítico 5:16 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 5:16

And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in
the holy thing
This seems to favour the sense of the word "estimation", in the preceding verse, as understood of the estimate of the damage done in the holy things, which belonged to the priests, for which recompense was to be made according as the damage was valued:

and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest;
besides paying the whole damage, he was to give a fifth part of the whole to the priest; which was ordered to show the evil nature of the sin of sacrilege, though done ignorantly, and to make men careful and cautious of committing it: the fifth part, according to the Jewish writers ^F6, is the fourth part of that of which a man eats, ("viz." of the holy things,) which is the fifth of the whole; thus, if he eats the value of a penny, he pays the penny and the fourth part of one, and so it is in all the fifths mentioned in the law; or, as Ben Gersom on the place expresses it, if he has had profit by the holy things to the value of four shekels, he pays five shekels; for the fifth of the shekels they add the fifth part to the four shekels; in this he observes, all are alike, the priest, the anointed, the prince, and a private person, for the law makes no difference between them in this:

and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the
trespass offering;
by offering it up for him:

and it shall be forgiven him;
after he has paid the whole damage, and a fifth part besides, and offered the trespass offering for atonement; (See Gill on Leviticus 5:10).

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Trumot, c. 6. 1.

Levítico 5:16 In-Context

14 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés:

15 Se alguém cometer uma transgressão, e pecar por ignorância nas coisas sagradas do Senhor, então trará ao Senhor, como a sua oferta pela culpa, um carneiro sem defeito, do rebanho, conforme a tua avaliação em siclos de prata, segundo o siclo do santuário, para oferta pela culpa.

16 Assim fará restituição pelo pecado que houver cometido na coisa sagrada, e ainda lhe acrescentará a quinta parte, e a dará ao sacerdote; e com o carneiro da oferta pela culpa, o sacerdote fará expiação por ele, e ele será perdoado.

17 Se alguém pecar, fazendo qualquer de todas as coisas que o Senhor ordenou que não se fizessem, ainda que não o soubesse, contudo será ele culpado, e levará a sua iniqüidade;

18 e como oferta pela culpa trará ao sacerdote um carneiro sem defeito, do rebanho, conforme a tua avaliação; e o sacerdote fará por ele expiação do erro que involuntariamente houver cometido sem o saber; e ele será perdoado.