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41 This is the people of the Gersonites, whom had spoken to Moses.
Moses and Aaron numbered according to the 5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
word of the Lord. 6 Say to the children of Israel: When a man or
42 The sons of Merari also were numbered by woman shall have committed any of all the sins
the kindreds and houses of their fathers, that men are wont to commit, and by negligence
43 From thirty years old and upward, unto shall have transgressed the commandment of the
fifty years old, all that go in to fulfil the rites of Lord, and offended,
the tabernacle of the covenant: 7 They shall confess their sin, and restore the
44 And they were found three thousand two principal itself, and the fifth part over and above,
hundred. to him against whom they have sinned.
45 This is the number of the sons of Merari, 8 But if there be no one to receive it, they shall
whom Moses and Aaron reckoned up according give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest’s,
to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of besides the ram that is offered for expiation, to
Moses. be an atoning sacrifice.
46 All that were reckoned up of the Levites, 9 All the firstfruits also, which the children of
and whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel offer, belong to the priest:
Israel took by name, by the kindreds and houses 10 And whatsoever is offered into the sanctu-
of their fathers, ary by every one, and is delivered into the hands
47 From thirty years old and upward, until of the priest, it shall be his.
fifty years old, that go into the ministry of the 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
tabernacle, and to carry the burdens, 12 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou
48 Were in all eight thousand five hundred and shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall
eighty. have gone astray, and contemning her husband,
49 Moses reckoned them up according to the 13 Shall have slept with another man, and her
husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is
word of the Lord, every one according to their
office and burdens, as the Lord had commanded secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, be-
cause she was not found in the adultery:
him.
14 If the spirit of jealousy stir up the hus-
band against his wife, who either is defiled, or is
Chapter 5 charged with false suspicion,
15 He shall bring her to the priest, and shall
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: offer an oblation for her, the tenth part of a mea-
2 Command the children of Israel, that they sure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon,
cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sac-
hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the dead: rifice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out
3 Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them adultery.
out of the camp, lest they defile it when I shall 16 The priest therefore shall offer it, and set
dwell with you, it before the Lord.
4 And the children of Israel did so, and they 17 And he shall take holy water in an earthen
cast them forth without the camp, as the Lord vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pave-