Numbers 5:8

But if the man has no relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest along with the ram of atonement, by which the atonement is made for him.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.

In Context

7and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its value, and give all this to the one he has wronged.

9Every sacred contribution the Israelites bring to the priest shall belong to him.

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Cross References

Leviticus 7:7The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

2 Kings 12:16The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:2-11

The Unclean to Be Removed. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: 3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. 4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the Lord spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel. 5 And the… Read the whole commentary →

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