Numbers 5
1 The Lord told Moses,
And YHWH spake unto Moses, saying,
2 “Order the Israelites to expel from the camp anyone who has a skin disease, or who has a discharge, or who is unclean from touching a dead body.
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 Whether male or female, you must expel them so they won't make their camp unclean, for that is where I live with them.”
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 The Israelites followed these instructions, and expelled such people from the camp. They did what the Lord had told Moses they should do.
And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as YHWH spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
5 The Lord told Moses,
And YHWH spake unto Moses, saying,
6 “Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman is unfaithful to the Lord by sinning against someone else, they are guilty
Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against YHWH, and that person be guilty;
7 and must confess their sin. They have to pay the full amount of compensation plus one fifth of its value, and give this to the person they have wronged.
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 However, if that person doesn't have a relative who can be paid the compensation, it belongs to the Lord and shall be given to the priest, together with a sacrificial ram by which the guilty person is set right.
But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto YHWH, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
9 All holy offerings that the Israelites bring to the priest belong to him.
And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
10 Your holy offerings belong to you, but once you give them to the priest they belong to him.”
And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
11 The Lord told Moses,
And YHWH spake unto Moses, saying,
12 “Tell the Israelites that these are the instructions to follow if a man's wife has an affair, being unfaithful to him
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
13 by sleeping with someone else. It may be that her husband doesn't find out and her unclean act wasn't witnessed—she wasn't caught out.
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 But if her husband becomes jealous and suspicious of his wife, whether she's guilty or not,
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 he is to take her before the priest. He is also to take with him on her behalf an offering of one tenth of an ephath of barley flour. He must also bring for her an offering of an ephah of barley flour. He's not to pour olive oil over it or put frankincense on it, since it's a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder offering to remind people about sin.
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 The priest is to lead the wife forward and have her stand before the Lord.
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before YHWH:
17 Then he shall fill a clay jar with holy water in a clay jar and sprinkle on it some dust from the floor of the Tabernacle.
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 Once the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall let her hair loose and have her hold the reminder grain offering—the grain offering used in cases of jealousy. The priest shall hold the bitter water that curses.
And the priest shall set the woman before YHWH, 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 He shall place the woman under oath and tell her, ‘If no one else has slept with you and you have not been unfaithful and become unclean while married to your husband, may you not be harmed by this bitter water that curses.
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 you have been unfaithful while married to your husband and have become unclean and have had sex with someone else…”
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 (Here the priest shall place the woman under the oath of the curse as follows.) “May the Lord place a curse on you that everyone knows about by having your thighs shrink and your belly swell up.
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, YHWH make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when YHWH doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
22 May this water that curses go into your stomach and make your belly swell up and your thighs shrink.” The woman is to answer, “I agree, I agree.”
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 The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
24 He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that curses, and it will cause her bitter pain if she is guilty.
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 The priest shall take back from her the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord, and take it to the altar.
Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before YHWH, and offer it upon the altar:
26 Then the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as a reminder portion and burn it on the altar, and make the woman drink the water.
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 After he has made her drink the water, if she has made herself unclean and has been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that curses will cause her bitter pain. Her belly will swell up and her thighs will shrink. She will become a cursed woman among her people.
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 But if the woman has not made herself unclean by being unfaithful and is clean, she will not experience this punishment and she will still be able to have children.
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
29 This is the rule to follow in cases of jealousy when a wife has an affair and makes herself unclean while married to her husband,
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
30 or when a husband starts feeling jealous and becomes suspicious of his wife. He shall have his wife stand before the Lord, and the priest is to carry out every part of this rule.
Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before YHWH, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
31 If she is found guilty, her husband will not be held responsible. But the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.
Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
