5And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:
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He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)I. The offences here supposed are, 1. A man’s concealing the truth when he was sworn as a witness to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Judges among the Jews had power to adjure not only the witnesses, as with us, but the person suspected (contrary to a rule of our law, that no man is bound to accuse himself), as appears by the high priest adjuring our Saviour, who thereu…
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