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Version 0.33.105, 15 February 2024

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Numbers Chapter 5

1Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, 2“Command the sons of Israel that they should cast out from the camp every leper and everyone with a discharge, and everyone who has been defiled by the dead, 3Whether male or female, you will cast them out. To outside the camp you will cast them out, so that they do not defile their camp where I dwell in their midst.” 4And the sons of Israel did so, and they cast them out, to outside the camp. As the Lord had spoken to Moses, so the sons of Israel did. 5Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, 6“Speak to the sons of Israel and say, ‘When a man or woman commits any of mankind's sins, in acting treacherously against the Lord, and that person has become consciously guilty, 7and they confess their sin which they committed, then he shall compensate for the damages he caused to its full value, and he will add a fifth to it and give it to him whom he has offended. 8And if an offended man does not have a kinsman redeemer to whom compensation for the damages can be made, the damages will be compensated to the Lord, to the priest, apart from the ram of atonement with which he atones for him. 9And every heave-offering, as with all the holy things of the sons of Israel which they present to the priest, will be his. 10And the holy things of each man will be his own, but when a man gives anything to the priest, it will be the priest's.’ ” 11Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, 12“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘Anyone at all whose wife turns aside and is unfaithful to him, 13whereby a man lies with her in sexual intercourse, and it is hidden from the sight of her husband, and it is concealed, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she is not caught, 14and a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife, while she is defiled, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife while she is not defiled, 15then the man will bring his wife to the priest, and he will bring her oblation concerning herself, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He will not pour oil on it, and he will not put frankincense on it, for it is a meal-offering for jealousy, a meal-offering for remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 16And the priest will bring her near, and he will have her stand before the Lord. 17And the priest will take holy water in an earthenware container, and the priest will take some of the dust which is on the ground of the tabernacle, and he will put it in the water. 18And the priest will set the woman before the Lord, and he will uncover the woman's head, and he will put the remembrance-offering in her hands – it is a jealousy-offering – and the priest will have in his hand the bitter water which causes a curse. 19And the priest will adjure her and say to the woman, «If no man has lain with you, and you have not turned aside to defilement instead of being faithful to your husband, then be innocent of this bitter water which causes a curse. 20But if you have turned aside instead of being faithful to your husband, and if you have become defiled, and some man has lain with you, other than your husband», 21then the priest will adjure the woman with an imprecation of a curse, and the priest will say to the woman, «May the Lord put you under a curse and an imprecation among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh waste away and your belly swell, 22and this water which causes a curse will go into your bowels to swell the belly and to cause the thigh to waste away.» And the woman will say, «Amen, amen.» 23And the priest will write these curses in a book, and he will blot them out with the bitter water. 24And he will give the bitter water which causes a curse to the woman to drink, and the water which causes a curse will go into her and become bitter. 25Then the priest will take the jealousy-offering from the hand of the woman, and he will wave the offering before the Lord, and he will offer it on the altar. 26Then the priest will take a handful of the offering – her remembrance-offering – and burn it on the altar, and afterwards he will give the woman the water to drink. 27And he will give her the water to drink, and it will be the case that if she is defiled and has dealt unfaithfully with her husband, then the water which causes a curse will go into her and it will become bitter, and her belly will swell, and her thigh will waste away, and the woman will become a curse among her people. 28But if the woman is not defiled, and she is clean, she will be pronounced innocent, and she will conceive offspring. 29This is the law of matters of jealousy, when a woman turns aside instead of being faithful to her husband, and she becomes defiled, 30or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man, and he is jealous of his wife, and he sets his wife before the Lord, and the priest deals with her according to all this law. 31And the man will be pronounced innocent of iniquity, but the woman in question will bear her iniquity.’ ”

Reference(s) in Chapter 5: v.23 ↔ John 8:6.

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