Numbers 5:1-10

1The Lord said to Moses,

2‘Speak to the Israelites. They must send any person with a disease of the skin away from the camp. Or somebody may have a disease that causes pus to come out of his body. Any person like that is not clean. Anyone who has touched a dead person is also not clean. Send those people out of the camp too.

3Do this with both men and women. Send them out of the camp. They must not make the camp unclean, because that is where I live among the people.’

4The Israelites did what the Lord had said to Moses. They sent those people outside the camp.

5The Lord said to Moses,

6‘Tell these rules to the Israelites: A person might do a wrong thing against another person. If they do, then they have turned against the Lord.

7That person must agree that they have sinned. They must pay the right amount to the other person. They must also pay them one fifth extra.

8But the other person may have died. If they have no relative who can accept the money, the money must go to the Lord. The person who did a wrong thing must give the money and a male sheep to the priest. The sheep is a special gift to the Lord to make everything right. Then I will forgive that person.

9All the special gifts from the Israelites to God are for the priest.

10The priest will keep all the special gifts.’