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Lord said to Moses, 2 “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has an infectious skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body. 3 You are to send away both male and female alike; send them outside the camp, so they will not defile the camp where I dwell among them.” 4 The Israelites did this, sending them outside the camp. The Israelites did just as the Lord had instructed Moses.
5 The Lord said to Moses, 6 “Tell the Israelites: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin against another and so is unfaithful to the Lord, that person is guilty. 7 The person must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution for the wrong, adding a fifth to it, and give it to the person he has wronged. 8 But if that person has no relatives to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution is to go to the Lord for the priest, along with the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him. 9 Every sacred contribution the Israelites bring to the priest will be his. 10 Every man’s sacred gifts are his own to give; but whatever any man gives the priest will belong to the priest’.”
11 The Lord said to Moses, 12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, 13 and another man lies with her carnally, but this is hidden from her husband and her sin is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act; 14 and if feelings of jealousy come over the husband and he suspects his wife has been unfaithful and defiled herself; or if feelings of jealousy come over him and he becomes jealous of his wife even though she has not defiled herself; 15 then the man 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 frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering for remembrance that brings hidden sin to light.
16 ‘The priest shall bring her forward and have her stand before the Lord. 17 Then the priest shall take some holy water in an clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. 18 After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen the woman’s hair and place in her hands the grain offering for remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. The priest himself is to hold the water of bitterness that brings a curse. 19 Then the priest shall put the women under oath and say to her, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you not be harmed by this bitter water that brings a curse. 20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and another man other that your husband has lain with you”— 21 at this point the priest is to make the woman take the oath of the curse, and he is to say to her—“May the Lord make you an object of cursing and shameful denunciation among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh to waste away and your belly swell. 22 May this water that brings the curse enter your stomach and make your belly swell and your thigh waste away”.
‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. Amen”.
23 ‘Then the priest is to write these curses on a scroll, and then wash them off into the water of bitterness. 24 He shall have the women drink the water of bitterness that brings a curse, and this water will enter her and cause bitter suffering. 25 The priest is to take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, wave the offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar. 26 The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar; and after that, have the woman drink the water. 27 When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings the curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell and her thigh waste away, and the woman will become a curse among her people. 28 But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she shall be unaffected and be able to conceive children.
29 ‘This is the law regarding jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority, 30 or when feelings of jealousy come over a man and he suspects his wife of marital unfaithfulness and becomes jealous. He is to have the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest will apply this entire law to her. 31 The husband will be free of guilt, but the woman will bear the consequences of her guilt’.”