Lexham English Bible

Numbers 5:3-14 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

3. You will send away both male and female; you will send them outside the camp. They must not make unclean their camps where I am dwelling in their midst.”

4. So the Israelites did so. They sent them away outside the camp; just as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the Israelites.

5. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

6. “Speak to the Israelites: ‘When a man or woman commits any of the sins of humankind by acting unfaithfully, it is a sin against Yahweh, and that person will be guilty;

7. they will confess their sin that they did and will make restitution for their guilt by adding a fifth to it and giving it to whomever was wronged.

8. But if the man does not have a redeemer to make restitution to him for the reparation, the reparation is to be given to Yahweh for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.

9. And every contribution of all the holy objects of the Israelites that they bring to the priest for him will be his.

10. The holy objects of a man will be for him; whatever he gives to the priest will be for him.’ ”

11. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

12. “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully to him,

13. and a man sleeps with her and ejaculates and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is concealed, although she is defiled, and there is no witness against her and she was not caught,

14. if a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife but she is not defiled,