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Sorry. That's not the title for my sermon today. I don't do sermons. That's a real question brought to me by reading Numbers 5:6-10.
And, yeah, I know this is supposed to be about stealing, as all my Dead Guys say, but it seems to go past that. "Breaking faith with the Lord." Doesn't that cover all ten commandment? It seems to me the first five commandments cover how to behave inwardly and outwardly directly to God, but the rest cover how to inwardly and outwardly behave with others, which is still indirectly behaving to God. So if we break any of them, there goes "breaking faith."
And, yeah, I know this is supposed to be about stealing, as all my Dead Guys say, but it seems to go past that. "Breaking faith with the Lord." Doesn't that cover all ten commandment? It seems to me the first five commandments cover how to behave inwardly and outwardly directly to God, but the rest cover how to inwardly and outwardly behave with others, which is still indirectly behaving to God. So if we break any of them, there goes "breaking faith."
The sin offering was the offering made to God for sin. The monetary or property reimbursement prescribed for the victim was the restitution made to him or his family. This sentence is an interesting construct, one that doesn't come through in the English translation. It equates both the sin and the restitution for it, and commands that both God and the victim must be satisfied.