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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 mans 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 mans 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 womans 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 womans 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.
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