Numbers 5:1-14 ▼

1 The LORD told Moses,

2 |Command the Israelis to send outside the encampment every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is ritually defiled by contact with a corpse.

3 Whether male or female, send them outside the camp so that they won't defile their camp, because I live among them.|

4 So the Israelis sent them outside the camp. The Israelis did just what the LORD had told Moses.

5 The LORD told Moses,

6 |Instruct the Israelis that whenever a man or woman does something contained in the list of the sins of man, thereby acting treacherously against the LORD, then that person stands guilty.

7 He is to confess the sin that he had committed, pay its full compensation, add one fifth to it, and give the compensation to whomever he offended.

8 But if the person has no related redeemer to whom compensation may be made, the payment is to be brought to the LORD and given to the priest, in addition to a ram for atonement with which he is to be atoned.

9 Every offering from all the most sacred things of the Israelis that they bring to the priest is to belong to him.

10 Furthermore, everyone's sacred things belong to him, and as well as regarding whatever a person gives to the priest.|

11 Then the LORD told Moses,

12 |Instruct the Israelis what to do if a man's wife turns astray so that she unfaithfully acts against him,

13 a man has sexual relations with her and she conceals it from her husband, keeping it secret although she has defiled herself with there being no witnesses against her, but she was caught anyway.

14 If an attitude of jealousy overcomes him so that he becomes jealous at his wife when she is defiled, or if an attitude of jealousy overcomes him and he becomes jealous of his wife even though she isn't defiled,