Numbers 5

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the sons of Israel, and they will send out of the camp every leper, and everyone with discharge, and everyone defiled by a body. 3 You will send out from male even to female. You will send them to the outside of the camp and they will not defile their camps in the middle of which I stay.” 4 And the sons of Israel did so, and they sent them out to the outside of the camp. As YHWH had spoken to Moses so the sons of Israel had done. 5 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 6 “Speak to the sons of Israel: Man or woman, when they do any of the sins of man, by committing a trespass against YHWH, and that person is guilty, 7 and they have confessed their sin which they have done, then he will restore his guilt in its principal, and add its fifth to it, and will give it to him in reference to whom he had been guilty. 8 And if the man has no redeemer to restore the guilt to, the guilt which will be restored will be to YHWH for the priest, apart from the ram of the atonements, whereby he will make atonement for him. 9 And every raised-offering of all the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they bring near to the priest, becomes his. 10 And any man’s hallowed things become his. That which any man gives to the priest becomes his.” 11 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 12 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and you will say to them: When any man’s wife turns aside, and has committed a trespass against him, 13 and a man has lain with her with the seed from intercourse, and it has been hidden from the eyes of her husband, and concealed, and she has been defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she has not been caught, 14 and a spirit of jealousy has passed over him, and he has been jealous for his wife, and she has been defiled—or a spirit of jealousy has passed over him, and he has been jealous for his wife, and she has not been defiled— 15 then the man will bring in his wife to the priest, and he will bring in her offering for her—a tenth of the ephah of barley meal. He will not pour oil on it, nor will he put frankincense on it, for it is a present of jealousy, a present of memorial, causing remembrance of iniquity. 16 And the priest will bring her near, and caused her to stand before YHWH, 17 and the priest will take holy water in an earthen vessel, and the priest will take of the dust which is on the floor of the Dwelling Place, and put it into the water, 18 and the priest will caused the woman to stand before YHWH, and will uncover the woman’s head, and give the present of the memorial into her hands (it is a present of jealousy), and the bitter waters which cause the curse will be in the hand of the priest. 19 And the priest will caused her to swear, and will say to the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness under your husband, be free from these bitter waters which cause the curse. 20 And you, if you have turned aside under your husband, and if you have been defiled, and a man commits his intercourse with you besides your husband— 21 then the priest will caused the woman to swear with an oath of execration, and the priest will say to the woman—YHWH gives you for an execration and for a curse in the middle of your people, in YHWH’s giving your thigh to fall and your belly to swell, 22 and these waters which cause the curse will go into your bowels to cause the belly to swell and the thigh to fall. And the woman will say, Amen, Amen. 23 And the priest will write these execrations in a scroll, and blot them out with the bitter waters, 24 and caused the woman to drink the bitter waters which cause the curse, and the waters which cause the curse will enter into her for bitter things. 25 And the priest will take the present of jealousy out of the hand of the woman, and wave the present before YHWH, and will bring it near to the altar. 26 And the priest will take a handful of the present, its memorial, and make incense on the altar, and afterward causes the woman to drink the water. 27 Indeed, he will caused her to drink the water, and it will come to pass, if she has been defiled and commits a trespass against her husband, that the waters which cause the curse will go into her for bitter things, and her belly will swell, and her thigh will fall, and the woman will become an execration in the middle of her people. 28 And if the woman has not been defiled, and is clean, then she will be acquitted, and will be sown with seed. 29 This will be the law of jealousies when a wife turns aside under her husband and has been defiled, 30 or when a spirit of jealousy passes over a man and he has been jealous of his wife, then he will caused the woman to stand before YHWH, and the priest will do to her all this law, 31 and the man will be acquitted from iniquity, and that woman will bear her iniquity.”


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