Numbers 5

1 And the Lord said to Moses,

Then the LORD said to Moses,

2 Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;

“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.

3 Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them.

You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”

4 So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to Moses, and put them outside the tent-circle.

So the Israelites did this, sending such people outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.

5 And the Lord said to Moses,

And the LORD said to Moses,

6 Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;

“Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty

7 Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.

and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its value, and give all this to the one he has wronged.

8 But if the man has no relation to whom the payment may be made, then the payment for sin made to the Lord will be the priest's, in addition to the sheep offered to take away his sin.

But if the man has no relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest along with the ram of atonement, by which the atonement is made for him.

9 And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.

Every sacred contribution the Israelites bring to the priest shall belong to him.

10 And every man's holy things will be his: whatever a man gives to the priest will be his.

Each man’s sacred gifts are his own, but whatever he gives to the priest will belong to the priest.”

11 And the Lord said to Moses,

Then the LORD said to Moses,

12 Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him

13 By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),

14 If the spirit of doubt comes into her husband's heart, and he has doubts of his wife, with good cause; or if he has doubts of her without cause:

and if a feeling of jealousy comes over her husband and he suspects his wife who has defiled herself—or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he suspects her even though she has not defiled herself—

15 Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume; for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering keeping wrongdoing in mind.

then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.

16 And the priest will make her come near and put her before the Lord;

The priest is to bring the wife forward and have her stand before the LORD.

17 And the priest will take holy water in a pot and put in it dust from the floor of the House;

Then he is to take some holy water in a clay jar and put some of the dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.

18 And he will make the woman come before the Lord with her hair loose, and will put the meal offering, the offering of a bitter spirit, in her hands; and the priest will take in his hand the bitter water causing the curse;

After the priest has the woman stand before the LORD, he is to let down her hair and place in her hands the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering for jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse.

19 And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If no man has been your lover and you have not been with another in place of your husband, you are free from this bitter water causing the curse;

And he is to put the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune to this bitter water that brings a curse.

20 But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:

But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—

21 Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach;

and the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.

22 And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.

May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’

23 And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out the writing with the bitter water;

And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.

24 And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her.

He is to have the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause her bitter suffering.

25 And the priest will take from her hand the meal offering of doubt, waving it before the Lord, and will take it to the altar;

The priest shall take from her hand the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.

26 And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on the altar as a sign, and then he will give the woman the bitter water.

Then the priest is to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar; after that he is to have the woman drink the water.

27 And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.

28 But if she is clean she will be free and will have offspring.

But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.

29 This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;

This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,

30 Or for a husband who, in a bitter spirit, has doubts in his heart about his wife; let him take her to the priest, who will put in force this law.

or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he suspects his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest is to apply to her this entire law.

31 Then the man will be free from all wrong, and the woman's sin will be on her.

The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”