John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 5:1

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And if a soul sin, etc.] The soul is put for the person, and is particularly mentioned, as Ben Melech says, because possessed of will and desire: and hear the voice of swearing; or cursing, or adjuration; not of profane swearing, and taking the name of God in vain, but either of false swearing, or perjury, as when a man hears another swear to a thing which he knows is false; or else of adjuration, either the voice of a magistrate or of a neighbour adjuring another, calling upon him with an oath to bear testimony in such a case; this is what the Jews f112 call the oath of testimony or witness, and which they say f113 is binding in whatsoever language it is heard: and is a witness; is able to bear witness to the thing he is adjured about: whether he hath seen or known of it; what he has seen with his eyes, or knows by any means: of such a case, the Jews observe f114, that there may be seeing without knowing, or knowing without seeing, and in either case a man ought to bear witness: if he do not utter it; tell the truth, declare what he has seen or known: then he shall bear his iniquity; he shall be charged with sin, and be obliged to acknowledge his offence, and bring a trespass offering for it: it is said f115 , that the witnesses are not guilty of the oath of the testimony, but in these ten cases; if they are required; if the testimony is concerning goods; if the goods are movable; if he that requires binds himself to pay for their testimony only, in case they bear witness; if they refuse after required; if they refuse in the sanhedrim; if the adjuration or oath is made there by the name of God, or his titles; if knowledge of the testimony goes before the oath; if he particularizes his witnesses in the time of the oath, or at the time of the requirement; and if the oath is in a language they understood.

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