leviticus 5:1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

leviticus 5:1 'Now if a person sins, after he hears a public adjuration [to testify], when he is a witness, whether he has seen or [otherwise] known, if he does not tell [it], then he will bear his guilt.

Le 5:1. TRESPASS OFFERINGS FOR CONCEALING KNOWLEDGE.

1. if a soul . . . hear the voice of swearing--or, according to some, "the words of adjuration." A proclamation was issued calling any one who could give information, to come before the court and bear testimony to the guilt of a criminal; and the manner in which witnesses were interrogated in the Jewish courts of justice was not by swearing them directly, but adjuring them by reading the words of an oath: "the voice of swearing." The offense, then, for the expiation of which this law provides, was that of a person who neglected or avoided the opportunity of lodging the information which it was in his power to communicate.

leviticus 5:1 'Now if a person sins, after he hears a public adjuration [to testify], when he is a witness, whether he has seen or [otherwise] known, if he does not tell [it], then he will bear his guilt.

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