5:1 The LORD said to Moses,
5:2 “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has an infectious skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.
5:3 Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
5:4 The Israelites did this; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.
5:5 The LORD said to Moses,
5:6 “Say to the Israelites: ‘When a man or woman wrongs another in any way and so is unfaithful to the LORD, that person is guilty
5:7 and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution for his wrong, add one fifth to it and give it all to the person he has wronged.
5:8 But if that person has no close relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest, along with the ram with which atonement is made for him.
5:9 All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.
5:10 Each man’s sacred gifts are his own, but what he gives to the priest will belong to the priest.’”
5:11 Then the LORD said to Moses,
5:12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
5:13 by sleeping with another man, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),
5:14 and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure–or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure–
5:15 then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder offering to draw attention to guilt.
5:16 “‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the LORD.
5:17 Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.
5:18 After the priest has had the woman stand before the LORD, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.
5:19 Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.
5:20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have defiled yourself by sleeping with a man other than your husband”–
5:21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse of the oath–“may the LORD cause your people to curse and denounce you when he causes your thigh to waste away and your abdomen to swell.
5:22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells and your thigh wastes away.” “‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”
5:23 “‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.
5:24 He shall have the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water will enter her and cause bitter suffering.
5:25 The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD and bring it to the altar.
5:26 The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water.
5:27 If she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then when she is made to drink the water that brings a curse, it will go into her and cause bitter suffering; her abdomen will swell and her thigh waste away, and she will become accursed among her people.
5:28 If, however, the woman has not defiled herself and is free from impurity, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.
5:29 “‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and defiles herself while married to her husband,
5:30 or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the LORD and is to apply this entire law to her.
5:31 The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’”
5:1 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
5:2 Command the children of Israel that they send out of the camp every leper and everyone that has a discharge and everyone who is unclean because of a dead person.
5:3 You shall send out both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp, where I dwell in their midst.
5:4 And the children of Israel did so and sent them outside the camp; just as Jehovah had spoken to Moses, so the children of Israel did.
5:5 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
5:6 Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to act unfaithfully toward Jehovah, and that person realizes his guilt,
5:7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have committed, and he shall make restitution according to its principal for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it and give it to the one whom he has wronged.
5:8 But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution which is made for the wrong goes to Jehovah for the priest, in addition to the ram of the expiation, by which expiation is made for him.
5:9 And every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.
5:10 And everyone’s holy things shall be his; whatever anyone gives to the priest, it becomes his.
5:11 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
5:12 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man’s wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully toward him,
5:13 And a man lies with her and has sexual relations, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her since she was not caught in the act;
5:14 And a spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she has defiled herself; or if a spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she has not defiled herself;
5:15 Then the man shall bring his wife to the priest and bring her offering for her, a tenth 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 remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
5:16 And the priest shall bring her near and set her before Jehovah.
5:17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.
5:18 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 remembrance in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy, and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of bitterness that brings the curse.
5:19 And the priest shall make her take an oath and shall say to the woman, If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness while under the authority of your husband, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings the curse.
5:20 But if you have gone astray while under the authority of your husband and if you have defiled yourself, and a man besides your husband has lain with you ?
5:21 Then the priest shall make the woman take an oath with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman ? Jehovah make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Jehovah makes your thigh waste away and your womb swell;
5:22 And this water that brings the curse shall go into your bowels and make your womb swell and your thigh waste away. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen.
5:23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wash them off into the water of bitterness.
5:24 And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse; and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.
5:25 And the priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and he shall wave the meal offering before Jehovah and bring it to the altar.
5:26 And the priest shall take a handful of the meal offering as its memorial portion and burn it upon the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman drink the water.
5:27 And when he has made her drink the water, then if she has defiled herself and has acted unfaithfully to her husband, the water that brings the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her womb will swell, and her thigh will waste away; and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
5:28 But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she will be immune and able to conceive seed.
5:29 This is the law of jealousy when a wife, while under the authority of her husband, goes astray and defiles herself,
5:30 Or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he is jealous of his wife. He shall set the woman before Jehovah, and the priest shall apply to her all this law.
5:31 And the man shall be free from iniquity, but that woman shall bear her iniquity.