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The Purity of the Camp
The Lord said to Moses,
The Lord said to Moses,
Cleansing the Camps
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
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 a dead person:
Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
both male and female shall ye put out; outside the camp shall ye put them, that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the Lord had instructed Moses.
And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp: as Jehovah had said to Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Restitution for Wrongs
The Lord said to Moses,
The Lord said to Moses,
Restitution for Trespasses
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any of all the sins of man to work unfaithfulness against Jehovah, and that soul is guilty,
and must confess the sin they have committed. They must make full restitution for the wrong they have done, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the person they have wronged.
then they shall confess their sin which they have done; and he shall recompense his trespass according to the principal thereof, and shall add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
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 the wrongdoer.
And if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, the trespass which is recompensed to Jehovah shall be the priest's, besides the ram of the atonement, wherewith an atonement is made for him.
All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.
And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present unto the priest, shall be his.
Sacred things belong to their owners, but what they give to the priest will belong to the priest.’ ”
And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatever any man giveth the priest shall be his.
The Test for an Unfaithful Wife
Then the Lord said to Moses,
Then the Lord said to Moses,
The Adultery Test
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go astray, and commit unfaithfulness against him,
so that another man has sexual relations with her, 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),
and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and she be defiled in secret, and there be no witness against her, and she have not been caught;
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 —
and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she have been defiled, -- or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she have not been defiled,
-- then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth part of an ephah of barley-meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an oblation of jealousy, a memorial oblation,
“ ‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord.
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Jehovah.
Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.
And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water.
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.
And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah, and uncover the woman's head, and put the memorial oblation in her hands, which is the jealousy offering; and in the hand of the priest shall be the bitter water that bringeth the curse.
Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations 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.
And the priest shall adjure her, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone astray in uncleanness, in being with another instead of thy husband, be free from this bitter water that bringeth the curse.
But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband” —
But if thou hast gone astray to another instead of thy husband, and hast been defiled, and a man other than thy husband have lain with thee,
-- then the priest shall adjure the woman with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman: Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to shrink, and thy belly to swell;
May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”
“ ‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”
“ ‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”
and this water that bringeth the curse shall enter into thy bowels, to make the belly to swell, and the thigh to shrink. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
“ ‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out with the bitter water,
He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her.
and he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that bringeth the curse, that the water that bringeth the curse may enter into her for bitterness.
The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to the altar.
And the priest shall take out of the woman's hand the oblation of jealousy, and shall wave the oblation before Jehovah, and shall present it at the altar.
And the priest shall take a handful of the oblation as a memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar; and afterwards he shall make the woman drink the water.
If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.
And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she have been defiled, and have committed unfaithfulness against her husband, that the water that bringeth the curse shall enter into her, for bitterness, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall shrink; and the woman shall become a curse among her people.
If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.
But if the woman have not been defiled, and be clean, then she shall be clear, and shall conceive seed.
“ ‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband,
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth astray to another instead of her husband and is defiled,
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.
or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he is jealous as regards his wife; then shall he set the woman before Jehovah, and the priest shall do to her according to all this law.