put them; that they not defile their
camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
4 The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as
Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.
5 Yahweh 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 Yahweh, 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, and
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 Yahweh shall
be the priest’s; besides 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 Yahweh 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 is kept close, and she is defiled, and 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: the tenth part 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 Yahweh;
17 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the
dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it
into the water. 18 The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, 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 swear, 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,
be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse. 20 But if you
have gone astray, being under your husband, 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, ‘Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when
Yahweh 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 blot them
out 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 Yahweh, and bring it to the altar. 26 The priest shall
take a handful of the meal offering, as the memorial of it, 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 seed.
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
Yahweh, 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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