Numbers 5:8
Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
If the injured party 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 the guilty party.

Contemporary English Version
If the victim has no relative who can accept this money, it belongs to me and will be paid to the priest. In addition to that payment, you must take a ram for the priest to sacrifice so your sin will be forgiven.

New American Bible
However, if there is no next of kin, one to whom restitution can be made, the restitution shall be made to the LORD and shall fall to the priest; this is apart from the ram of atonement with which the priest makes atonement for the guilty individual.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest's, besides the ram that is offered for expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest's, besides the ram that is offered for expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice.

have no

Leviticus 25:25,26 If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold. . . .

beside the ram

Leviticus 6:6,7 Moreover for his sin he shall offer a ram without blemish out of the flock: and shall give it to the priest, according to the estimation and measure of the offence. . . .

Leviticus 7:7 As the sacrifice for sin is offered, so is also that for a trespass: the same shall be the law of both these sacrifices. It shall belong to the priest that offereth it.

Context
Restitution for Trespasses
7They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself, and the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have sinned. 8But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest's, besides the ram that is offered for expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice.9All the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest:…
Cross References
Leviticus 5:16
And he shall make good the damage itself which he hath done, and shall add the fifth part besides, delivering it to the priest, who shall pray for him, offering the ram: and it shall be forgiven him.

Leviticus 6:5
All that he would have gotten by fraud, in the principal, and the fifth part besides, to the owner, whom he wronged.

Numbers 5:7
They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself, and the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have sinned.

Numbers 5:9
All the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest:

Numbers 5:7
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