Accountability Matters
Our Daily Bread Podcast
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🗓️ 19 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | A person who wrongs another must confess the sin they have committed. |
| 0:04.9 | They must make full restitution for the wrong they have done. |
| 0:09.0 | Numbers 5 verses 6 and 7. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.7 | Accountability Matters was written by Marvin Williams and read by Stephen Tabor. |
| 0:22.6 | Numbers chapter 5 verses 5 through 10 |
| 0:25.6 | The Lord said to Moses, say to the Israelites, any man or a woman who wrongs another in any way, |
| 0:34.6 | and so is unfaithful to the Lord, is guilty and must confess the sin they |
| 0:39.6 | have committed. They must make full restitution for the wrong they have done, at a fifth of |
| 0:45.5 | the value to it, and give it all to the person they have wronged. But if that person has no |
| 0:51.5 | close relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution |
| 0:57.0 | belongs to the Lord and must be given to the priest, along with the ram with which atonement |
| 1:02.8 | is made for the wrongdoer. |
| 1:05.1 | All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him. Sacred things belong to their owners, but what |
| 1:13.5 | they give to the priest will belong to the priest. Accountability Matters, written by Marvin Williams. |
| 1:23.2 | A judge used a unique approach to address shoplifting, sentencing offenders to wash cars in a local |
| 1:29.9 | store's parking lot as part of their community service. He hoped it would deter future thefts and |
| 1:36.0 | serve as a vivid reminder of the consequences of wrongdoing. He emphasized that actions have |
| 1:42.5 | consequences and accountability matters. |
| 1:45.8 | The judge's sentence reflects the instruction in Numbers 5 verses 6 and 7. |
| 1:51.5 | A person who wrongs another must confess the sin they have committed. |
| 1:56.3 | They must make full restitution. |
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