Lìwèijì 6:3

3 Huò shì zaì jiǎn le wèi shī de wù shàng xíng le guǐzhà , shuōhuǎng qǐshì , zaì zhè yīqiè de shì shàng fàn le shénme zuì .

Lìwèijì 6:3 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 6:3

Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it,
&c.] Who having found anything lost, at once concludes it his own, and converts it to his own use, never inquiring after the proprietor of it, or taking any method to get knowledge of him, and restore it to him; but so far from that, being suspected of finding it, and charged with it denies it: Maimonides ^F11 gives a reason why a lost thing should be restored, not only because so to do is a virtue in itself praiseworthy, but because it has a reciprocal utility; for if you do not restore another's lost things, neither will your own be restored to you:

and sweareth falsely;
which is to be understood, not of the last case only, but of all the rest, or of anyone of them, as it follows:

in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein;
by unfaithfulness in a trust, cheating, defrauding, lying, and false swearing.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Moreh Nevochim, par. 3. c. 40.

Lìwèijì 6:3 In-Context

1 Yēhéhuá xiǎoyù Móxī shuō ,

2 Ruò yǒu rén fàn zuì , gānfàn Yēhéhuá , zaì línshè jiāofù tāde wù shàng , huò shì zaì jiāo yì shàng xíng le guǐzhà , huò shì qiǎngduó rén de cáiwù , huò shì qīyē línshè ,

3 Huò shì zaì jiǎn le wèi shī de wù shàng xíng le guǐzhà , shuōhuǎng qǐshì , zaì zhè yīqiè de shì shàng fàn le shénme zuì .

4 Tā jì fàn le zuì , yǒu le guò fàn , jiù yào guī hái tā suǒ qiǎngduó de , huò shì yīn qīyē suǒ de de , huò shì rén jiāofù tāde , huò shì rén wèi shī tā suǒ jiǎn de wù ,

5 Huò shì tā yīn shénme wù qǐ le jiǎ shì , jiù yào rú shù guī hái , Lìngwaì jiā shàng wǔ fèn ...zhīyī , zaì chá chū tā yǒu zuì de rìzi jiāo hái bĕn zhǔ .