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Leviticus 5:4 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 4. 4Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
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Role in This Section
This verse adds rash spoken oaths to do evil or good when their force later becomes known.
Read It With
- Leviticus 5:1-6
Use 5:1-6 as the reading frame for Leviticus 5:4. The verse adds rash spoken oaths to do evil or good when their force later becomes known, while the complete unit shows that The unit names failures involving withheld testimony, unnoticed contact, and careless oaths, then requires acknowledgment and an offering when guilt becomes known.
Why It Needs Context
Leviticus 5:4 adds rash spoken oaths to do evil or good when their force later becomes known; reading it alone would sever that detail from the actors, category, and outcome in Leviticus 5:1-6.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 5:1-6 — Witness silence, hidden impurity, rash oaths, confession, and offeringSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 5:1-6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 5:1-6
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