3. Whether they are a man or a woman, send them away so that the camp where I am living among you will not be made unclean.”
4. So the Israelites obeyed God’s command. They sent those people outside the camp. They did what the Lord had told Moses.
5. The Lord said to Moses,
6. “Tell this to the Israelites: You might do something wrong to another person. When you do that, you are really sinning against God. So you are guilty of doing wrong.
7. You must confess that sin. Then you must fully pay for that wrong thing you did. You must add one-fifth to the payment and give it all to the person you had done wrong to.
8. But maybe the person is dead and does not have any close relatives to accept the payment. In that case, you will give the payment to the Lord. That is, you will give the full payment to the priest. The priest must sacrifice the ram that makes people pure. This ram will be sacrificed to cover over your sins, but the priest will keep the rest of the payment.
9. “If any of you Israelites gives a special gift to God, the priest who accepts that gift can keep it. It is his.
10. You don’t have to give these special gifts, but if you do, the gifts belong to the priest.”
11. Then the Lord said to Moses,
12. “Tell the Israelites this: A man’s wife might be unfaithful to him.