Liber Numeri 5

1 locutusque est Dominus ad Mosen dicens

And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

2 praecipe filiis Israhel ut eiciant de castris omnem leprosum et qui semine fluit pollutusque est super mortuo

“Command the sons of Israel, and they send out of the camp every leper, and everyone with discharging, and everyone defiled by a body;

3 tam masculum quam feminam eicite de castris ne contaminent ea cum habitaverim vobiscum

you send out from male even to female; you send them to the outside of the camp and they do not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.”

4 feceruntque ita filii Israhel et eiecerunt eos extra castra sicut locutus erat Dominus Mosi

And the sons of Israel do so, and they send them out to the outside of the camp; as YHWH has spoken to Moses so the sons of Israel have done.

5 locutus est Dominus ad Mosen dicens

And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

6 loquere ad filios Israhel vir sive mulier cum fecerint ex omnibus peccatis quae solent hominibus accidere et per neglegentiam transgressi fuerint mandatum Domini atque deliquerint

“Speak to the sons of Israel: Man or woman, when they do any of the sins of man, by committing a trespass against YHWH, and that person [is] guilty,

7 confitebuntur peccatum suum et reddent ipsum caput quintamque partem desuper ei in quem peccaverint

and they have confessed their sin which they have done, then he has restored his guilt in its principal, and is adding its fifth to it, and has given [it] to him in reference to whom he has been guilty.

8 sin autem non fuerit qui recipiat dabunt Domino et erit sacerdotis excepto ariete qui offertur pro expiatione ut sit placabilis hostia

And if the man has no redeemer to restore the guilt to, the guilt which is restored [is] to YHWH for the priest, apart from the ram of the atonements, whereby he makes atonement for him.

9 omnes quoque primitiae quas offerunt filii Israhel ad sacerdotem pertinent

And every raised-offering of all the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they bring near to the priest, becomes his;

10 et quicquid in sanctuarium offertur a singulis et traditur manibus sacerdotis ipsius erit

and any man’s hallowed things become his; that which any man gives to the priest becomes his.”

11 locutus est Dominus ad Mosen dicens

And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

12 loquere ad filios Israhel et dices ad eos vir cuius uxor erraverit maritumque contemnens

“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When any man’s wife turns aside, and has committed a trespass against him,

13 dormierit cum altero viro et hoc maritus deprehendere non quiverit sed latet adulterium et testibus argui non potest quia non est inventa in stupro

and a man has lain with her [with] the seed [from] intercourse, and it has been hid from the eyes of her husband, and concealed, and she has been defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she has not been caught,

14 si spiritus zelotypiae concitaverit virum contra uxorem suam quae vel polluta est vel falsa suspicione appetitur

and a spirit of jealousy has passed over him, and he has been jealous [for] his wife, and she has been defiled—or a spirit of jealousy has passed over him, and he has been jealous [for] his wife, and she has not been defiled—

15 adducet eam ad sacerdotem et offeret oblationem pro illa decimam partem sati farinae hordiaciae non fundet super eam oleum nec inponet tus quia sacrificium zelotypiae est et oblatio investigans adulterium

then the man has brought in his wife to the priest, and he has brought in her offering for her—a tenth of the ephah of barley meal; he does not pour oil on it, nor does he put frankincense on it, for it [is] a present of jealousy, a present of memorial, causing remembrance of iniquity.

16 offeret igitur eam sacerdos et statuet coram Domino

And the priest has brought her near, and has caused her to stand before YHWH,

17 adsumetque aquam sanctam in vase fictili et pauxillum terrae de pavimento tabernaculi mittet in eam

and the priest has taken holy water in an earthen vessel, and the priest takes of the dust which is on the floor of the Dwelling Place, and has put [it] into the water,

18 cumque steterit mulier in conspectu Domini discoperiet caput eius et ponet super manus illius sacrificium recordationis et oblationem zelotypiae ipse autem tenebit aquas amarissimas in quibus cum execratione maledicta congessit

and the priest has caused the woman to stand before YHWH, and has uncovered the woman’s head, and has given the present of the memorial into her hands (it [is] a present of jealousy), and the bitter waters which cause the curse are in the hand of the priest.

19 adiurabitque eam et dicet si non dormivit vir alienus tecum et si non polluta es deserto mariti toro non te nocebunt aquae istae amarissimae in quas maledicta congessi

And the priest has caused her to swear, and has said to the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside [to] uncleanness under your husband, be free from these bitter waters which cause the curse;

20 sin autem declinasti a viro tuo atque polluta es et concubuisti cum altero

and you, if you have turned aside under your husband, and if you have been defiled, and a man commits his intercourse with you besides your husband—

21 his maledictionibus subiacebis det te Dominus in maledictionem exemplumque cunctorum in populo suo putrescere faciat femur tuum et tumens uterus disrumpatur

then the priest has caused the woman to swear with an oath of execration, and the priest has said to the woman—YHWH gives you for an execration and for a curse in the midst of your people, in YHWH’s giving your thigh to fall and your belly to swell,

22 ingrediantur aquae maledictae in ventrem tuum et utero tumescente putrescat femur et respondebit mulier amen amen

and these waters which cause the curse have gone into your bowels to cause the belly to swell and the thigh to fall; and the woman has said, Amen, Amen.

23 scribetque sacerdos in libello ista maledicta et delebit ea aquis amarissimis in quas maledicta congessit

And the priest has written these execrations in a scroll, and has blotted [them] out with the bitter waters,

24 et dabit ei bibere quas cum exhauserit

and has caused the woman to drink the bitter waters which cause the curse, and the waters which cause the curse have entered into her for bitter things.

25 tollet sacerdos de manu eius sacrificium zelotypiae et elevabit illud coram Domino inponetque super altare ita dumtaxat ut prius

And the priest has taken the present of jealousy out of the hand of the woman, and has waved the present before YHWH, and has brought it near to the altar;

26 pugillum sacrificii tollat de eo quod offertur et incendat super altare et sic potum det mulieri aquas amarissimas

and the priest has taken a handful of the present, its memorial, and has made incense on the altar, and afterward causes the woman to drink the water;

27 quas cum biberit si polluta est et contempto viro adulterii rea pertransibunt eam aquae maledictionis et inflato ventre conputrescet femur eritque mulier in maledictionem et in exemplum omni populo

indeed, he has caused her to drink the water, and it has come to pass, if she has been defiled and commits a trespass against her husband, that the waters which cause the curse have gone into her for bitter things, and her belly has swelled, and her thigh has fallen, and the woman has become an execration in the midst of her people.

28 quod si polluta non fuerit erit innoxia et faciet liberos

And if the woman has not been defiled, and is clean, then she has been acquitted, and has been sown [with] seed.

29 ista est lex zelotypiae si declinaverit mulier a viro suo et si polluta fuerit

This [is] the law of jealousies when a wife turns aside under her husband and has been defiled,

30 maritusque zelotypiae spiritu concitatus adduxerit eam in conspectu Domini et fecerit ei sacerdos iuxta omnia quae scripta sunt

or when a spirit of jealousy passes over a man and he has been jealous of his wife, then he has caused the woman to stand before YHWH, and the priest has done to her all this law,

31 maritus absque culpa erit et illa recipiet iniquitatem suam

and the man has been acquitted from iniquity, and that woman bears her iniquity.”