1. The Lord said to Moses,
2. “Command the people of Israel to expel from the camp everyone with a dreaded skin disease or a bodily discharge and everyone who is unclean by contact with a corpse.
3. Send all these ritually unclean people out, so that they will not defile the camp, where I live among my people.”
4. The Israelites obeyed and expelled them all from the camp.
5. The Lord gave Moses
6. the following instructions for the people of Israel. When anyone is unfaithful to the Lord and commits a wrong against someone,
7. he must confess his sin and make full repayment, plus an additional twenty per cent, to the person he has wronged.
8. But if that person has died and has no near relative to whom payment can be made, it shall be given to the Lord for the priest. This payment is in addition to the ram used to perform the ritual of purification for the guilty person.
9. Also every special contribution which the Israelites offer to the Lord belongs to the priest to whom they present it.
12-14. to give the Israelites the following instructions. It may happen that a man becomes suspicious that his wife is unfaithful to him and has defiled herself by having intercourse with another man. But the husband may not be certain, for his wife may have kept it secret — there was no witness, and she was not caught in the act. Or it may happen that a husband becomes suspicious of his wife, even though she has not been unfaithful.
29-30. This is the law in cases where a man is jealous and becomes suspicious that his wife has committed adultery. The woman shall be made to stand in front of the altar, and the priest shall perform this ritual.