Leviticus 6:5

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Or all that about which he has sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it belongs, in the day of his trespass offering.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Wronged. Hebrew and Chaldean add, "in the day of his sin-offering "and the Septuagint, "in which he is convicted. "No unnecessary delay in making restitution can be allowed to the sincere penitent, who wishes to make his peace with God.

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Gregory The Dialogist

AD 604

Some people consider the commandments of the Old Testament stricter than those of the New, but they are deceived by such a shortsighted interpretation. In the former theft, not miserliness, is punished; wrongful taking of property is punished in the latter by fourfold restitution. In this place the rich man is not censured for having taken away someone else’s property but for not having sufficiently given away his own.

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