1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Command the children of Israel that
they put out of the camp every leper, everyone
who has a discharge, and whoever
is unclean by a corpse.
3 You shall put both male and female
outside of the camp so that they don’t defile
their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
4 The children of Israel did so, and put
them outside of the camp; as the LORD
spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel
did.
5 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
6 “Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When
a man or woman commits any sin that men
commit, so as to trespass against the LORD,
and that soul is guilty,
7 then he shall confess his sin which he
has done; and he shall make restitution for
his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it,
and give it to him in respect of whom he
has been guilty.
8 But if the man has no kinsman to whom
restitution may be made for the guilt, the
restitution for guilt which is made to the
LORD shall be the priest’s, in addition to
the ram of the atonement, by which atonement
shall be made for him.
9 Every heave offering of all the holy
things of the children of Israel, which they
present to the priest, shall be his.
10 Every man’s holy things shall be his;
whatever any man gives the priest, it shall
be his.’ ”
11 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
12 “Speak to the children of Israel, and
tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray
and is unfaithful to him,
13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it
is hidden from the eyes of her husband and
this is kept concealed, and she is defiled,
there is no witness against her, and she
isn’t taken in the act;
14 and the spirit of jealousy comes on
him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is
defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on
him, and he is jealous of his wife and she
isn’t defiled;
15 then the man shall bring his wife to the
priest, and shall bring her offering for her:
one tenth of an ephah† of barley meal. He
shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense
on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a
meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity
to memory.
16 The priest shall bring her near, and set
her before the LORD.
17 The priest shall take holy water in an
earthen vessel; and the priest shall take
some of the dust that is on the floor of the
tabernacle and put it into the water.
18 The priest shall set the woman before
the LORD, and let the hair of the woman’s
head go loose, and put the meal offering of
memorial in her hands, which is the meal
offering of jealousy. The priest shall have
in his hand the water of bitterness that
brings a curse.
19 The priest shall cause her to take an
oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man
has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone
aside to uncleanness, being under your
husband’s authority, be free from this water
of bitterness that brings a curse.
20 But if you have gone astray, being under
your husband’s authority, and if you
are defiled, and some man has lain with
you besides your husband—”
21 then the priest shall cause the woman
to swear with the oath of cursing, and the
priest shall tell the woman, “May the LORD
make you a curse and an oath among your
people, when the LORD allows your thigh
to fall away, and your body to swell;
22 and this water that brings a curse
will go into your bowels, and make your
body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The
woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”
23 “ ‘The priest shall write these curses
in a book, and he shall wipe them into the
water of bitterness.
24 He shall make the woman drink the
water of bitterness that causes the curse;
and the water that causes the curse shall
enter into her and become bitter.
25 The priest shall take the meal offering
of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and
shall wave the meal offering before the
LORD, and bring it to the altar.
26 The priest shall take a handful of the
meal offering, as its memorial portion, and
burn it on the altar, and afterward shall
make the woman drink the water.
27 When he has made her drink the water,
then it shall happen, if she is defiled
and has committed a trespass against her
husband, that the water that causes the
curse will enter into her and become bitter,
and her body will swell, and her thigh
will fall away; and the woman will be a
curse among her people.
28 If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean;
then she shall be free, and shall conceive
offspring.‡
29 “ ‘This is the law of jealousy, when
a wife, being under her husband, goes
astray, and is defiled,
30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on
a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he
shall set the woman before the LORD, and
the priest shall execute on her all this law.
31 The man shall be free from iniquity,
and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’ ”
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