“Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,”
When they sin in any of these ways and realize their guilt, they must return what they have stolen or taken by extortion, or what was entrusted to them, or the lost property they found. The guilt offering for interpersonal sins requires the return of what was wrongfully obtained: the stolen property, the extorted payment, the entrusted item, the found property that was kept. Restoration precedes the offering — the material wrong must be made right before the ritual addresses the relational damage. Zacchaeus in Luke 19:8 announces that he will restore fourfold what he stole — the principle of restitution before worship that Leviticus 6:4 establishes is what Zacchaeus embodies in his response to Jesus.
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