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Numbers 5:4-12 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

4. And the children of Israel did so, and they cast them forth without the camp, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

5. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

6. Say to the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall have committed any of all the sins that men are wont to commit, and by negligence shall have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and offended,

7. They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself, and the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have sinned.

8. But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest's, besides the ram that is offered for expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice,

9. an the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest:

10. And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is delivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his.

11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

12. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,

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