SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:8
Y si aquel varón no tuviere redentor al cual el delito sea restituido, el delito se restituirá al SEÑOR, al sacerdote, a más del carnero de las expiaciones, con el cual lo expiará.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 5:8
Verse 8. If the man have no kinsman] The Jews think that this law respects the stranger and the sojourner only, because every Israelite is in a state of affinity to all the rest; but there might be a stranger in the camp who has no relative in any of the tribes of Israel.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. But if a man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass to , etc.] This supposes that if a man should die, against whom the trespass is, before the restitution is made, then it shall be made to his heirs; and if he has none, then it was to be given to the priest, as after directed: the Jews generally understand this of a proselyte, that has no heirs, for they say, there is no Israelite but has kinsmen, a brother or a son, or some one or other near of kin to him, of his father’s family, even up to Jacob: let the trespass be recompensed unto the Lord, [even] to the priest ; that is, let the principal, with the fifth part, which is the recompence for the trespass committed, be given to the priest of the Lord, which is the same as if it was given to him, he being his minister: beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him ; which, in this case, was ordered to be offered for the expiation, of the trespass, (see Leviticus 6:6,7); the Jewish canon is, “he that takes away anything by force from a proselyte, and swears to him, and he (the proselyte) dies, lo, he shall pay the principal and the fifth to the priests, and the trespass offering to the altar, as it is said, “if a man has no kinsman”, etc. when he brings the money and the trespass offering, and he is dead, the money shall be given to his sons, but the trespass offering (the ram) shall feed until it contracts some blemish, and then it shall be sold, and the price of it shall fall to the freewill offerings f29 .”
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-10 - The camp was to be cleansed. The purity of the church must be kept a carefully as the peace and order of it. Every polluted Israelite mus be separated. The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable. The greater profession of religion any house or family makes, the more the are obliged to put away iniquity far from them. If a man overreach of defraud his brother in any matter, it is a trespass against the Lord who strictly charges and commands us to do justly. What is to be don when a man's awakened conscience charges him with guilt of this kind though done long ago? He must confess his sin, confess it to God confess it to his neighbour, and take shame to himself; though it go against him to own himself in a lie, yet he must do it. Satisfactio must be made for the offence done to God, as well as for the los sustained by the neighbour; restitution in that case is not enoug without faith and repentance. While that which is wrongly gotten i knowingly kept, the guilt remains on the conscience, and is not don away by sacrifice or offering, prayers or tears; for it is the same ac of sin persisted in. This is the doctrine of right reason, and of the word of God. It detects hypocrites, and directs the tender conscienc to proper conduct, which, springing from faith in Christ, will make wa for inward peace.
Original Hebrew
ואם 518 אין 369 לאישׁ 376 גאל 1350 להשׁיב 7725 האשׁם 817 אליו 413 האשׁם 817 המושׁב 7725 ליהוה 3068 לכהן 3548 מלבד 905 איל 352 הכפרים 3725 אשׁר 834 יכפר 3722 בו עליו׃ 5921
