Numbers 5:8

Easy To Read Version

{But maybe the person he did wrong to is dead. And} maybe that dead person doesn’t have any close relatives to take the payment. In that case, the person who did wrong will give the payment to the Lord. That person will give the full payment to the priest. The priest must sacrifice the ram that makes people pure. This ram must be sacrificed to cover over the sins of the person who did wrong. But the priest can keep the rest of the payment.

Cross References

2 Kings 12:16

People gave money at the times they offered guilt offerings and sin offerings. But that money was not used to pay the workers. That money belonged to the priests.

Leviticus 5:16

That person must pay for the sin he did with the holy things. He must give the things he promised, add one-fifth to the value, and give this money to the priest. In this way, the priest will make that person pure [53] with the ram of the guilt offering. And God will forgive that person.

Leviticus 6:5

whatever he made a false promise about. He must pay the full price. And then he must pay an extra fifth of {the value of} the thing. He must give the money to the true owner. He must do this on the day he {brings} his guilt offering.

Leviticus 7:7

The guilt offering is like the sin offering. The same rules are for both offerings. The priest that does the sacrificing will get the meat for food.

Numbers 5:7

So that person must confess (tell about) the sin he has done. Then that person must fully pay for that wrong thing he did. And he must add one-fifth to the payment and give it all to the person he had done wrong to.

Numbers 5:9

“If one of the people of Israel gives a special gift {to God} then the priest that accepts that gift can keep it. It is his.