3Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. …
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)This is the latter part of the law of the trespass-offering: the former part, which concerned trespasses about holy things, we had in the close of the foregoing chapter; this concerns trespasses in common things. Observe here, I. The trespass supposed, Lev. 6:2 , 3 . Though all the instances relate to our neighbour, yet it is called a trespass against the Lord , because, though the injury be done…
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