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Numbers 5:1-11 International Children’s Bible (ICB)

1. The Lord said to Moses,

2. “Command the Israelites to send away from camp anyone with a harmful skin disease. Send away anyone who gives off body fluid. And send away anyone who has touched a dead body.

3. Send both men and women away from camp. Then they won’t spread the disease there. I am living among you.”

4. So Israel obeyed God’s command. They sent those people outside the camp as the Lord had told Moses.

5. The Lord said to Moses,

6. “Tell the Israelites: ‘When a man or woman does something wrong to another person, that is really sinning against God. That person is guilty.

7. He must tell what he has done wrong. And he must fully pay for the wrong he has done. Then he must add one-fifth to it. And he must give it to the person he wronged.

8. But that person may be dead. That person may not have any close relatives to receive the payment. Then the one who did wrong owes the Lord. That person must pay the priest. The priest must sacrifice a male sheep to remove the wrong so that person will belong to God.

9. When an Israelite brings a holy gift, he should give it to the priest.

10. No one has to give these holy gifts. But if someone does give them, they belong to the priest.’”

11. Then the Lord said to Moses,

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