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.
Challoner: Shall confessThis confession and satisfaction, ordained in the Old Law, was a figure of the sacrament of penance.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- confitebuntur peccatum suum, et reddent ipsum caput, quintamque partem desuper, ei in quem peccaverint.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐξαγορεύσει τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἣν ἐποίησεν, καὶ ἀποδώσει τὴν πλημμελίαν, τὸ κεφάλαιον, καὶ τὸ ἐπίπεμπτον αὐτοῦ προσθήσει ἐπ᾽ αὐτό, καὶ ἀποδώσει τίνι ἐπλημμέλησεν αὐτῷ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהִתְוַדּ֗וּ אֶֽת חַטָּאתָם֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשׂוּ֒ וְהֵשִׁ֤יב אֶת אֲשָׁמוֹ֙ בְּרֹאשׁ֔וֹ וַחֲמִישִׁת֖וֹ יֹסֵ֣ף עָלָ֑יו וְנָתַ֕ן לַאֲשֶׁ֖ר אָשַׁ֥ם לֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Shall confess. This confession and satisfaction, ordained in the old law, was a figure of the sacrament of penance. (Challoner)
A special confession of their sin, with satisfaction, and a sacrifice, are required. So Christ orders us to lay open our consciences to his priests, John. xx., &c. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.