8. But maybe the person is dead and does not have any close relatives to accept the payment. In that case, you will give the payment to the Lord. That is, you will give the full payment to the priest. The priest must sacrifice the ram that makes people pure. This ram will be sacrificed to cover over your sins, but the priest will keep the rest of the payment.
9. “If any of you Israelites gives a special gift to God, the priest who accepts that gift can keep it. It is his.
10. You don’t have to give these special gifts, but if you do, the gifts belong to the priest.”
11. Then the Lord said to Moses,
12. “Tell the Israelites this: A man’s wife might be unfaithful to him.
13. She might have sexual relations with another man and hide this from her husband. And there might not be anyone to tell him that his wife committed this sin. Her husband might never know about the wrong thing she did, and she might not tell her husband about her sin.
14. But the husband might begin to think that his wife sinned against him, whether she has or not. He might become jealous. He might begin to believe that she is not pure and true to him.