Study it in the app““When a person sins and commits unfaithfulness against YHWH by lying to his neighbor about a deposit or a pledge or a robbery, or has exploited his neighbor,”
“Whenכִּיa personנֶפֶשׁsinsתֶחֱטָאand commitsוּמָעֲלָהunfaithfulnessמַעַלagainst YHWHבַּיהוָהby lyingוְכִחֵשׁto his neighborבַּעֲמִיתוֹabout a depositבְּפִקָּדוֹןorאוֹa pledgeבִתְשׂוּמֶת יָדorאוֹa robbery,בְגָזֵלorאוֹhas exploitedעָשַׁקhis neighbor,עֲמִיתוֹ
person
Someone as a whole; "my soul" can simply mean me.
Where else “nefesh” appearssin
To do wrong, fail God or another.
Where else “techeta” appearsbe unfaithful
Be unfaithful, break the loyalty owed; especially, keep for oneself what belongs to God.
Where else “maala” appearsunfaithfulness
Unfaithfulness, a breach of trust.
Where else “maal” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yhva” appearsdeny
To say what is not so, or deny what is true.
Where else “chichesh” appearsneighbor, fellow
Neighbor, companion: a fellow member of the people with whom one deals.
Where else “amit” appearsdeposit
Something left in another's care.
Where else “fikadon” appearsdeposit
Something left in another's hands as a deposit or pledge. It appears only once, in Leviticus.
Where else “tesumet” appearshand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yad” appearsrobbery
Robbery, what is taken by force.
Where else “gazel” appearsoppress, defraud
Oppress, defraud: take advantage of someone by taking what is his; crush.
Where else “ashak” appearsThe text calls deceiving one’s neighbor “unfaithfulness against YHWH”; it can be understood that whoever harms another also wrongs God.
1YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
2 · This verse (above)
3or has found something lost and lied about it and sworn falsely about any one of all the things that a man may do so as to sin by them,
