Numbers 5

1 Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,

And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Command the people of Israel to send away from the camp everyone with an infectious skin disease, and everyone who has an oozing sore, and whoever is unclean through touching a dead body.

Command the sons of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every man who has an issue, and whoever is unclean about life.

3 Whether male or female, you must send them out of the camp. They must not defile the camp, because I live in it.”

Ye shall put out both male and female. Ye shall put them outside the camp, that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.

4 The people of Israel did so. They sent them out of the camp, as Yahweh commanded Moses. The people of Israel obeyed Yahweh.

And the sons of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp. As Jehovah spoke to Moses, so did the sons of Israel.

5 Again Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,

And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

6 “Speak to the people of Israel. When a man or woman commits any sin such as people do to one another, and is unfaithful to me, that person is guilty.

Speak to the sons of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Jehovah, and that soul shall be guilty,

7 Then he must confess the sin that he has done. He must completely pay back the price of his guilt and add to the price one-fifth more. He must give this to the one he has wronged.

then he shall confess his sin which he has done. And he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.

8 But if the wronged person has no close relative to receive the payment, he must pay the price for his guilt to me through a priest, along with a ram to atone for himself.

But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Jehovah shall be the priest's, besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.

9 Every offering of the people of Israel, the things that are set aside and brought to the priest by the people of Israel, will belong to him.

And every heave offering of all the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.

10 The offerings of every person will be for the priest; if anyone gives anything to the priest, it will belong to him.”

And every man's hallowed things shall be his. Whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.

11 Again, Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,

And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

12 “Speak to the people of Israel. Say to them, 'Suppose that a man's wife turns away and sins against her husband.

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, If any man's wife goes aside, and commits a trespass against him,

13 Then suppose that another man sleeps with her. In that case, she is defiled. Even if her husband does not see it or know about it, and even if no one catches her in the act and there is no one to testify against her,

and a man lies 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, and she is not taken in the act,

14 nevertheless, a spirit of jealousy might still inform the husband that his wife is defiled. However, a spirit of jealousy might falsely come on a man when his wife is not defiled.

and the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled, or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she is not defiled,

15 In such cases, the man must bring his wife to the priest. The husband must take an offering required on her behalf, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He must pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering for remembering, as a reminder of the iniquity.

then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her oblation for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

16 The priest must bring her near and place her before Yahweh.

And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Jehovah.

17 The priest must take a jar of holy water and take dust from the floor of the tabernacle. He must put the dust into the water.

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

18 The priest will set the woman before Yahweh and he will untie the hair on the woman's head. He will put into her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that can bring a curse.

And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah, 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. And the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that causes the curse.

19 The priest will put the woman under an oath and say to her, 'If no other man had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and committed impurity, then you will be free from this bitter water that can bring a curse.

And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say to the woman, If no man has lain with thee, and if thou have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causes the curse.

20 But if you, a woman under her husband, have gone astray, if you are defiled, and if some other man has slept with you,

But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou are defiled, and some man has lain with thee besides thy husband,

21 then, (the priest must cause the woman to swear an oath that can bring down a curse on her, and then he must continue speaking to the woman) 'Yahweh will make you into a curse that will be shown to your people to be such. This will happen if Yahweh causes your thigh to waste away and your abdomen to swell.

then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people when Jehovah makes thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell.

22 This water that brings the curse will go into your stomach and make your abdomen swell and your thighs waste away.' The woman is to reply, 'Yes, let that happen if I am guilty.'

And this water that causes the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Truly, Truly.

23 The priest must write these curses on a scroll, and then he must wash away the written curses into the bitter water.

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

24 The priest must make the woman drink the bitter water that brings the curse. The water that brings the curse will enter her and become bitter.

And 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 bitter.

25 The priest must take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand. He must hold up the grain offering before Yahweh and bring it to the altar.

And the priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Jehovah, and bring it to the altar.

26 The priest must take a handful of the grain offering as a representative offering, and burn it on the altar. Then he must give the woman the bitter water to drink.

And the priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as the memorial of it, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

27 When he gives her the water to drink, if she is defiled because she has committed a sin against her husband, then the water that brings the curse will enter her and become bitter. Her abdomen will swell and her thigh will waste away. The woman will be cursed among her people.

And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse shall enter into her bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away. And the woman shall be a curse among her people.

28 But if the woman is not defiled and if she is clean, then she must be free. She will be able to conceive children.

And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean, then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

29 This is the law of jealousy. It is the law for a woman who strays away from her husband and is defiled.

This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes aside, and is defiled,

30 It is the law for a man with a spirit of jealousy when he is jealous of his wife. He must bring the woman before Yahweh, and the priest must do to her everything that this law of jealousy describes.

or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he is jealous of his wife. Then he shall set the woman before Jehovah, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

31 The man will be free from guilt for bringing his wife to the priest. The woman must bear any guilt she might have.”

And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.