SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:16
Y lo que hubiere pecado del santuario, pagará, y añadirá a ello el quinto, y lo dará al sacerdote; y el sacerdote lo reconciliará con el carnero de la expiación, y tendrá perdón.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 5:16
Verse 16. Shall make amends] Make restitution for the wrong he had done according to what is laid down in the preceding verse.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing , etc.] 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 f125 , 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”).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-19 - Here are offerings to atone for trespasses against a neighbour. If man put to his own use unwittingly, any thing dedicated to God, he wa to bring this sacrifice. We are to be jealous over ourselves, to as pardon for the sin, and make satisfaction for the wrong, which we d but suspect ourselves guilty of. The law of God is so very broad, the occasions of sin in this guilty of. The law of God is so very broad the occasions of sin in this world are so numerous, and we are so pron to evil, that we need to fear always, and to pray always, that we ma be kept from sin. Also we should look before us at every step. The tru Christian daily pleads guilty before God, and seeks forgiveness throug the blood of Christ. And the gospel salvation is so free, that the poorest is not shut out; and so full, that the most burdened conscienc may find relief from it. Yet the evil of sin is so displayed as to cause every pardoned sinner to abhor and dread it __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ואת 853 אשׁר 834 חטא 2398 מן 4480 הקדשׁ 6944 ישׁלם 7999 ואת 853 חמישׁתו 2549 יוסף 3254 עליו 5921 ונתן 5414 אתו 853 לכהן 3548 והכהן 3548 יכפר 3722 עליו 5921 באיל 352 האשׁם 817 ונסלח׃ 5545
