New English Translation

Numbers 5:5-13 New English Translation (NET)

5. Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

6. “Tell the Israelites, ‘When a man or a woman commits any sin that people commit, thereby breaking faith with the Lord, and that person is found guilty,

7. then he must confess his sin that he has committed and must make full reparation, add one fifth to it, and give it to whomever he wronged.

8. But if the individual has no close relative to whom reparation can be made for the wrong, the reparation for the wrong must be paid to the Lord for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.

9. Every offering of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.

10. Every man’s holy things will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”

11. The Lord spoke to Moses:

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

13. and a man has sexual relations with her without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught –