“1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of
Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that
hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: 3 Both male and
female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they
defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. 4 And the children
of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake
unto Moses, so did the children of Israel. 5 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying, 6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman
shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD,
and that person be guilty; 7 Then they shall confess their sin which
they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal
thereof, and add unto it the fifth [part] thereof, and give [it] unto
[him] against whom he hath trespassed. 8 But if the man have no kinsman
to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto
the LORD, [even] to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby
an atonement shall be made for him. 9 And every offering of all the holy
things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest,
shall be his. 10 And every man’s hallowed things shall be his:
whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.”
“11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12 Speak unto the children
of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a
trespass against him, 13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid
from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and
[there be] no witness against her, neither she be taken [with the
manner]; 14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous
of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon
him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: 15 Then
shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her
offering for her, the tenth [part] of an ephah of barley meal; he shall
pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it [is] an
offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to
remembrance. 16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before
the LORD: 17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel;
and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall
take, and put [it] into the water: 18 And the priest shall set the woman
before the LORD, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of
memorial in her hands, which [is] the jealousy offering: and the priest
shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: 19 And
the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no
man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness
[with another] instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter
water that causeth the curse: 20 But if thou hast gone aside [to
another] instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man
have lain with thee beside thine husband: 21 Then the priest shall
charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto
the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when
the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; 22 And this
water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make [thy]
belly to swell, and [thy] thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen,
amen. 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall
blot [them] out with the bitter water: 24 And he shall cause the woman
to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that
causeth the curse shall enter into her, [and become] bitter. 25 Then the
priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and
shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar: 26
And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, [even] the
memorial thereof, and burn [it] upon the altar, and afterward shall
cause the woman to drink the water. 27 And when he hath made her to
drink the water, then it shall come to pass, [that], if she be defiled,
and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth
the curse shall enter into her, [and become] bitter, and her belly shall
swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her
people. 28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall
be free, and shall conceive seed. 29 This [is] the law of jealousies,
when a wife goeth aside [to another] instead of her husband, and is
defiled; 30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be
jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the
priest shall execute upon her all this law. 31 Then shall the man be
guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.” (Nu
5:1-31 AV)
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