Numbers 5:1-16

English Standard Version

Unclean People

5 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Command the people of Israel that they ^(A)put out of the camp everyone who is leprous^[a] or has ^(B)a discharge and everyone who is ^(C)unclean through contact with the dead. ³You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, ^(D)in the midst of which I dwell.” ⁴And the people of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord said to Moses, so the people of Israel did.

Confession and Restitution

⁵And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁶“Speak to the people of Israel, ^(E)When a man or woman commits any of the sins that people commit by breaking faith with the Lord, and that person realizes his guilt, ⁷^(F)he shall confess his sin that he has committed.^[b] ^(G)And he shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong. ⁸But if the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the Lord for the priest, in addition to ^(H)the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him. ⁹And ^(I)every contribution, all the holy donations of the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his. ¹⁰Each one shall keep his holy donations: whatever anyone gives to the priest shall be his.”

A Test for Adultery

¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹²“Speak to the people of Israel, If any man's wife goes astray and breaks faith with him, ¹³if a man ^(J)lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, ^(K)since she was not taken in the act, ¹⁴and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself, ¹⁵then the man shall bring his wife to the priest and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah^[c] of barley flour. ^(L)He shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, ^(M)bringing iniquity to remembrance.