Numbers 5:1-14 ▼

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp everyone with leprosy, everyone having a discharge, and everyone who is unclean because of contact with a dead person.

3 You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they do not defile their camp where I dwell in their midst.”

4 And the sons of Israel did so and sent them outside the camp; just as the LORD had spoken to Moses, that is what the sons of Israel did.

5 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

6 “Speak to the sons of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against the LORD, and that person is guilty,

7 then he shall confess his sin which he has committed, and he shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it a fifth of it, and give it to him whom he has wronged.

8 But if the person has no redeemer to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution which is made for the wrong must go to the LORD for the priest, besides the ram of atonement, by which atonement is made for him.

9 Also every contribution pertaining to all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they offer to the priest, shall be his.

10 So every person’s holy gifts shall be his; whatever anyone gives to the priest, it becomes his.’”

11 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

12 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

13 and a man has sexual relations with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she remains undiscovered, although she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act,

14 if an attitude of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has defiled herself, or if an attitude of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has not defiled herself,