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Numbers 5:7-16 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

7. You must confess your guilt and pay the victim in full for whatever damage has been done, plus a fine of twenty per cent.

8. If the victim has no relative who can accept this money, it belongs to me and will be paid to the priest. In addition to that payment, you must take a ram for the priest to sacrifice so your sin will be forgiven.

9-10. When you make a donation to the sacred tent, that money belongs only to the priest, and each priest will keep what is given to him.

11. The Lord told Moses

12-14. to say to the people of Israel:Suppose a man becomes jealous and suspects that his wife has been unfaithful, but he has no proof.

15. He must take his wife to the priest, together with one kilogramme of ground barley as an offering to find out if she is guilty. No olive oil or incense is to be put on that offering.

16. The priest is to make the woman stand at my altar,

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