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Numbers 5:1-14 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2. "Instruct the sons of Israel to cast out of the camp every leper, and those who have a flow of seed, and those who have been polluted because of the dead;

3. cast out of the camp both male and female, lest they contaminate it while I am dwelling with you."

4. And the sons of Israel did so, and they cast them out, beyond the camp, just as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

5. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

6. "Say to the sons of Israel: A man or a woman, when they have done anything out of all the sins that often befall men, or if, by negligence, they have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and so have committed an offense,

7. they shall confess their sin, and they shall restore the principle itself, plus a fifth part above it, to any against whom they have sinned.

8. But if there would be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be for the priest, except for the ram, which is offered for expiation, in order to be a pleasing victim.

9. Likewise, all the first-fruits, which the sons of Israel offer, belong to the priest,

10. with whatever is offered by each one at the Sanctuary, and which is delivered into the hands of the priest; it shall be his."

11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

12. "Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: The man whose wife will have gone astray, and, disdaining her husband,

13. will have slept with another man, and if her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and if it cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not caught in the shameful act,

14. if the spirit of jealousy stirs up the husband against his wife, who either has been polluted or is being assailed with a false suspicion,

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