1Then the
Lord spoke to Moses and said,
2“Command the sons of Israel that they should cast out from the camp every leper and everyone with a discharge, and everyone
who has been defiled by the dead,
3Whether male or female, you will cast them out. To outside the camp you will cast them out, so that they do not defile their camp where I dwell in their midst.”
4And the sons of Israel did so, and they cast them
out, to outside the camp. As the
Lord had spoken to Moses, so the sons of Israel did.
5Then the
Lord spoke to Moses and said,
6“Speak to the sons of Israel
and say, ‘When a man or woman commits any of mankind's sins, in acting treacherously against the
Lord, and that person has become
consciously guilty,
7and they confess their sin which they committed, then he shall compensate for the damages he
caused to its full value, and he will add a fifth to it and give it to him whom he has offended.
8And if an
offended man
does not
have a
kinsman redeemer to whom compensation for the damages
can be made, the damages
will be compensated to the
Lord, to the priest, apart from the ram of atonement with which he atones for him.
9And every heave-offering, as with all the holy
things of the sons of Israel which they present to the priest, will be his.
10And the holy
things of each
man will be his
own,
but when a man gives
anything to the priest, it will be
the priest's.’ ”
11Then the
Lord spoke to Moses and said,
12“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘Anyone at all whose wife turns aside and is unfaithful to him,
13whereby a man lies with her in sexual intercourse, and it is hidden from the sight of her husband, and it is concealed, and she is defiled, and
there is no witness against her, and she is not caught,
14and a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife, while she is defiled, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife while she is not defiled,
15then the man will bring his wife to the priest, and he will bring her oblation concerning herself, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He will not pour oil on it, and he will not put frankincense on it, for it
is a meal-offering for jealousy, a meal-offering for remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
16And the priest will bring her near, and he will have her stand before the
Lord.
17And the priest will take holy water in an earthenware container, and the priest will take
some of the dust which is on the ground of the tabernacle, and he will put
it in the water.
18And the priest will set the woman before the
Lord, and he will uncover the woman's head, and he will put the remembrance-offering in her hands – it
is a jealousy-offering – and the priest will have in his hand the bitter water which causes a curse.
19And the priest will adjure her and say to the woman, «If no man has lain with you, and you have not turned aside
to defilement instead of
being faithful to your husband,
then be innocent of this bitter water which causes a curse.
20But if you have turned aside instead of
being faithful to your husband, and if you have become defiled, and some man has lain with you, other than your husband»,
21then the priest will adjure the woman with an imprecation of a curse, and the priest will say to the woman, «May the
Lord put you under a curse and an imprecation among your people, when the
Lord makes your thigh waste away and your belly swell,
22and this water which causes a curse will go into your bowels to swell the belly and to cause the thigh to waste away.» And the woman will say, «Amen, amen.»
23And the priest will
write these curses in a book, and he will blot
them out with the bitter water.
24And he will give the bitter water which causes a curse to the woman to drink, and the water which causes a curse will go into her
and become bitter.
25Then the priest will take the jealousy-offering from the hand of the woman, and he will wave the offering before the
Lord, and he will offer it on the altar.
26Then the priest will take a handful of the offering – her remembrance-offering – and burn
it on the altar, and afterwards he will give the woman the water to drink.
27And he will give her the water to drink, and it will be
the case that if she is defiled and has dealt unfaithfully with her husband, then the water which causes a curse will go into her
and it will become bitter, and her belly will swell, and her thigh will waste away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.
28But if the woman is not defiled, and she
is clean, she will be pronounced innocent, and she will conceive offspring.
29This
is the law of
matters of jealousy, when a woman turns aside instead of
being faithful to her husband, and she becomes defiled,
30or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man, and he is jealous of his wife, and he sets
his wife before the
Lord, and the priest deals with her according to all this law.
31And the man will be pronounced innocent of iniquity, but the woman in question will bear her iniquity.’ ”
Reference(s) in Chapter 5: v.23 ↔ John 8:6.