Leviticus 5:5
Good News Translation
When you are guilty, you must confess the sin,

New Revised Standard Version
When you realize your guilt in any of these, you shall confess the sin that you have committed.

Contemporary English Version
As soon as you discover that you have committed any of these sins, you must confess what you have done.

New American Bible
when someone is guilty in regard to any of these matters, that person shall confess the wrong committed,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let him do penance for his sin:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let him do penance for his sin:

confess

Leviticus 16:21 And putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offences and sins. And praying that they may light on its head, he shall turn him out by a man ready for it, into the desert.

Leviticus 26:40 Until they confess their iniquities, and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed against me, and walked contrary unto me.

Numbers 5:7 They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself, and the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have sinned.

Joshua 7:19 And Joshua said to Achan: My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.

Ezra 10:11,12 And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives. . . .

Job 33:27 He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.

Psalm 32:5 I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.

Proverbs 28:13 He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.

Jeremiah 3:13 But yet acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God: and thou hast scattered thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and hast not heard my voice, saith the Lord.

Daniel 9:4 And I prayed to the Lord, my God, and I made my confession, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.

Romans 10:10 For, with the heart, we believe unto justice: but, with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.

1 John 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. . . .

Context
Sins Requiring a Sin Offering
4The person that sweareth, and uttereth with his lips, that he would do either evil or good, and bindeth the same with an oath, and his word: and having forgotten it afterwards understandeth his offence, 5Let him do penance for his sin:6And offer of the flocks an ewe lamb, or a she goat, and the priest shall pray for him and for his sin.…
Cross References
Leviticus 5:13
Praying for him and making atonement. But the part that is left, he himself shall have for a gift.

Leviticus 16:21
And putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offences and sins. And praying that they may light on its head, he shall turn him out by a man ready for it, into the desert.

Leviticus 26:40
Until they confess their iniquities, and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed against me, and walked contrary unto me.

Numbers 5:7
They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself, and the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have sinned.

Proverbs 28:13
He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.

Leviticus 5:4
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