THE
BOOK OF NUMBERS
Numbers Chapter 5
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¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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Command the children of
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You shall put out both man and woman, you shall put
them outside the camp; so that they do not defile their camp, in the midst of
which I dwell.
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And the children of
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And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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Speak to the children of
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Then he shall confess the sin which he has committed: and shall make full
restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it, and give it to him
against whom he trespassed.
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But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made, let the
restitution for wrong go to the LORD, for the priest; in addition to the ram of
the atonement, by which an atonement shall be made for him.
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And every offering of all the holy things of the children of
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And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatever any man gives the
priest, it shall be his.
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¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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Speak to the children of
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And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her
husband, and is kept secret, and she is defiled, and there is no witness
against her, nor was she taken in the act;
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And the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife, and
she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous
of his wife, and she is not defiled:
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Then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her
offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah
of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it; for it is
an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to
remembrance.
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And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
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And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall
take the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into
the water:
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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
causes the curse:
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And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say to the woman, If no man has
lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness with another
instead of your husband, be free from this bitter water that causes the curse:
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But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if
you are defiled, and some man has lain with you beside your husband:
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Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest
shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your
people, when the LORD makes your thigh rot, and your belly to swell;
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And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to make your
belly swell, and your thigh rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
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And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them
out with the bitter water:
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And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse:
and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her, and become
bitter.
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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:
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And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even
the memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall
cause the woman to drink the water.
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And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that,
if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the
water which causes 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.
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But if the woman is not defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and
shall conceive seed.
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This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goes aside to another
instead of her husband, and is defiled;
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Or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous over his wife,
and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall deal with her
according to this law.
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Thus the husband will be innocent of any sin, and the wife shall bear her
iniquity.