1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 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 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 And
the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD
spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
5 And
the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6 Speak
unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men
commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
7 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 But
if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be
recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the
atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
9 And
every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they
bring unto the priest, shall be his.
10 And
every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest,
it shall be his.
11 And
the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12 Speak
unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and
commit a trespass against him,
13 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 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 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 And
the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
17 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 And
the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, 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 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 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 Then
the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall
say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people,
when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
22 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 And
the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out
with the bitter water:
24 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 Then
the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall
wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:
26 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 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 And
if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall
conceive seed.
29 This is the
law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is
defiled;
30 Or
when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife,
and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her
all this law.
31 Then
shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her
iniquity.
