1. The Lord instructed Moses:
2. “Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, or anyone who is defiled because of a corpse.
3. You must send away both male or female; send them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps where I dwell among them.”
4. The Israelites did this, sending them outside the camp. The Israelites did as the Lord instructed Moses.
5. The Lord spoke to Moses:
6. “Tell the Israelites: When a man or woman commits any sin against another, that person acts unfaithfully toward the Lord and is guilty.
7. The person is to confess the sin he has committed. He is to pay full compensation, add a fifth of its value to it, and give it to the individual he has wronged.
8. But if that individual has no relative to receive compensation, the compensation goes to the Lord for the priest, along with the atonement ram by which the priest will make atonement for the guilty person.
9. Every holy contribution the Israelites present to the priest will be his.
10. Each one’s holy contribution is his to give; what each one gives to 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, is unfaithful to him,
13. and sleeps with another, but it is concealed from her husband, and she is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her, and she wasn’t caught in the act;