A reading from the Book of Numbers.

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp,

everyone who is leprous or has a discharge,

and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead.

You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may

not defile their camp in the midst of which I dwell.

And the people of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp, as the Lord said to Moses,

so the people of Israel did. And the Lord spoke to Moses,

saying, speak to the people of Israel. When a man or woman commits any of the sins that

people commit by breaking faith with the Lord, and that person realizes his guilt, he shall confess

his sin that he is committed, and he shall make full

restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it, and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong.

But if the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the Lord for the priest,

in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.

And every contribution, all the holy donations of the people of Israel,

which they bring to the priest, shall be his. Each one shall keep his

holy donations, whatever anyone gives to the priest shall be his. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the people of Israel. If any man's wife goes astray and breaks faith with him,

if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband,

and she is undetected though she has defiled herself,

and there is no witness against her since she was not taken in the act. And if the spirit of

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