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Leviticus 5:1

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a soul: Leviticus 5:15, Leviticus 5:17, Leviticus 4:2; Ezekiel 18:4, Ezekiel 18:20

hear: Exodus 22:11; Judges 17:2; 1 Kings 8:31, 1 Kings 22:16; 2 Chronicles 18:15; Proverbs 29:24, Proverbs 30:9; Matthew 26:63

the voice of swearing: Kol alah:, rather, "the voice of adjuration," φωνην ορκισμου:, as the LXX render; for this does not relate to the duty of informing against a common swearer, but to the case of a person who, being adjured by the civil magistrate to answer upon oath, refuses to declare what he knows upon the subject - such an one shall bear his iniquity - shall be considered as guilty in the sight of God of the transgression which he has endeavoured to conceal, and must expect to be punished for hiding the iniquity with which he was acquainted.

bear: Leviticus 5:17, Leviticus 7:18, Leviticus 17:16, Leviticus 19:8, Leviticus 20:17; Numbers 9:13; Psalms 38:4; Isaiah 53:11; 1 Peter 2:24

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