Neville Goddard on Leviticus 5:1-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Leviticus 5 in context

Scripture Focus

1And 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.

2Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.

3Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.

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.

Leviticus 5:1-4

Biblical Context

Leviticus 5:1-4 says that guilt arises when a person witnesses wrongdoing or touches unclean things and, upon knowing it, does not reveal or correct it. The result is a personal burden carried because the inner state has been left unaddressed.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your witnessing is the inner act of choosing your state. Leviticus 5:1-4 presents sins not as distant crimes, but as unspoken thoughts, concealed vows, and hidden defilements waiting in your consciousness. When you hear an impulse or recall a slander and you do not voice it within your inner court, you are complicit with that energy and it shapes your experience as guilt. The 'uncleanness' is simply an inner disturbance—beliefs, attachments, or dismissed truths—that you have not allowed to pass. Once you become aware of it, you cannot pretend it does not exist; awareness itself makes you responsible, and responsibility is the doorway to freedom. The remedy is simple: assume a new state now—your I AM, the universal awareness, dissolves the thought, renounces the oath, and replaces it with truth. Feel it real that you are already cleansed by alignment with that higher state; you are governed by the truth you choose in imagination.