Then they shall confess their sin which they have
done
The form of which confession, according to Fagius, was, O Lord, I
am guilty of death, I have deserved to be stoned for this sin, or
to be strangled for this trespass, or to be burnt for this crime
and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal
thereof, and
add unto it the fifth [part] thereof;
paying the whole of whatsoever he had in any manner defrauded his
neighbour of, to which he was to add a fifth part of that; that
is, as Aben Ezra interprets it, it he confesses of himself, but
if there are witnesses of it he must add two fifths, and some say
a fifth of a fifth:
and give [it] unto [him] against whom he hath
trespassed;
as a satisfaction for the injury done him.
