The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 6:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

This verse would be better translated as follows:—If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and falsely deny to his neighbour something that was delivered to him to keep, or something that he had received in pawn, or something that he had taken away by violence, or hath got something by oppression from his neighbour.

Cf. the injunction in Le Leviticus 19:11 : "Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another." Exodus 22:7-13 contains earlier legislation on the subject of things taken in trust.

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