Numbers 5

1 Adonai spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,

2 “Enjoin the children of Israel [God prevails] that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.

3 Both you shall put male and female outside of the camp; that they not defile their camp, in the middle of which I dwell.”

4 The children of Israel [God prevails] did so, and put them outside of the camp; as Adonai spoke to Moses [Drawn out], so did the children of Israel [God prevails].

5 Adonai spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,

6 “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails]: ‘When a man or woman commits any habitual sin ·missing the mark· that men commit, so as to do an unfaithful act against Adonai, and that soul is condemned guilty;

7 then he shall yadah ·extend hands in confession· of his habitual sin ·missing the mark· which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his fault incurring guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been condemned guilty.

8 But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the fault incurring guilt, the restitution for fault incurring guilt which is made to Adonai shall be the priest’s; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.

9 Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel [God prevails], which they present to the priest, shall be his.

10 Every man’s holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’”

11 Adonai spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,

12 “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,

13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

14 and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is not defiled:

15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah [an omer; 2.3 q; 2.2 L] of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing depravity (moral evil) to memory.

16 The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Adonai;

17 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.

18 The priest shall set the woman before Adonai, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

19 The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:”

21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “Adonai make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Adonai allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

22 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen ·So be it, So be it·.”

23 “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

24 He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

25 The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Adonai, and bring it to the altar.

26 The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

27 When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed an unfaithful act against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.

28 If the woman is not defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.

29 “‘This is the Torah ·Teaching· of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;

30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Adonai, and the priest shall execute on her all this Torah ·Teaching·.

31 The man shall be free from depravity (moral evil), and that woman shall bear her depravity (moral evil).’”