New American Bible, Revised Edition

Numbers 5:3-15 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

3. Male and female alike, you shall expel them. You shall expel them from the camp so that they do not defile their camp, where I dwell in their midst.

4. This the Israelites did, expelling them from the camp; just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.

5. The Lord said to Moses:

6. Tell the Israelites: If a man or a woman commits any offense against another person, thus breaking faith with the Lord, and thereby becomes guilty,

7. that person shall confess the wrong that has been done, make restitution in full, and in addition give one fifth of its value to the one that has been wronged.

8. However, if there is no next of kin, one to whom restitution can be made, the restitution shall be made to the Lord and shall fall to the priest; this is apart from the ram of atonement with which the priest makes atonement for the guilty individual.

9. Likewise, every contribution among the sacred offerings that the Israelites present to the priest will belong to him.

10. Each shall possess his own sacred offerings; what is given to a priest shall be his.

11. The Lord said to Moses:

12. Speak to the Israelites and tell them: If a man’s wife goes astray and becomes unfaithful to him

13. by virtue of a man having intercourse with her in secret from her husband and she is able to conceal the fact that she has defiled herself for lack of a witness who might have caught her in the act;

14. or if a man is overcome by a feeling of jealousy that makes him suspect his wife, and she has defiled herself; or if a man is overcome by a feeling of jealousy that makes him suspect his wife and she has not defiled herself—

15. then the man shall bring his wife to the priest as well as an offering on her behalf, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal. However, he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense over it, since it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance which recalls wrongdoing.