Numbers 5:8

The verse deals with the case in which the injured person dies before restitution has been made to him, and leaves no representative.

kinsman Heb. gô"çl. A technical term of considerable importance in Israelite law. A man's next of kin was (1) a full brother, (2) failing him, an uncle on the father's side, (3) failing him, a first cousin on the father's side, (4) failing him, any near kinsman. His duties were manifold. In civil law:(a) to buy back the family estate of his kinsman, which the latter had sold through poverty (Leviticus 25:25; Ruth 4:1-6). He also had the refusal of it before it was sold (Jeremiah 32:8-12). (b) To buy back the person of his kinsman, if the latter had sold himself as a slave through poverty (Leviticus 25:47 ff.). In both these cases his action may be denoted by the word -redeem." (c) To receive restitution due to his deceased kinsman (here). In criminal law: to claim satisfaction for the blood of his murdered kinsman, in which case he was known as the gô"çl haddâm, -avenger of blood."

unto the Lord shall be the priest's lit. -shall be for Jehovah for the priest."The priest shall receive it as the representative of Jehovah.

the ram of the atonement The guilt-offering described in Leviticus 6:6.