Amplified Bible

Numbers 5:1-15 Amplified Bible (AMP)

1. THE Lord said to Moses,

2. Command the Israelites that they put outside the camp every leper and everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is defiled by [coming in contact with] the dead.

3. Both male and female you shall put out; without the camp you shall put them, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.

4. The Israelites did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord said to Moses, so the Israelites did.

5. And the Lord said to Moses,

6. Say to the Israelites, When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit by breaking faith with the Lord, and that person is guilty,

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

8. But if the man [wronged] has no kinsman to whom the restitution may be made, let it be given to the Lord for the priest, besides the ram of atonement with which atonement shall be made for the offender.

9. And every offering of all the holy things of the Israelites which they bring to the priest shall be his.

10. And every man's hallowed things shall be the priest's; whatever any man gives the priest shall be his.

11. And the Lord said to Moses,

12. Say to the Israelites, If any man's wife goes astray and commits an offense of guilt against him,

13. And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and it is kept secret though she is defiled, and there is no witness against her nor was she taken in the act,

14. And if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous and suspicious of his wife who has defiled herself–or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous and suspicious of his wife though she has not defiled herself–

15. Then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal; but he shall pour no oil upon it nor put frankincense on it [symbols of favor and joy], for it is a cereal offering of jealousy and suspicion, a memorial offering bringing iniquity to remembrance.