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Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the Lord had instructed Moses.
And the people of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord said to Moses, so the people of Israel did.
Restitution for Wrongs
The Lord said to Moses,
The Lord said to Moses,
Confession and Restitution
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
“Speak to the people of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that people commit by breaking faith with the Lord, and that person realizes his guilt,
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.
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.
But if the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the Lord for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.
All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.
And every contribution, all the holy donations of the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his.
Sacred things belong to their owners, but what they give to the priest will belong to the priest.’ ”
Each one shall keep his holy donations: whatever anyone gives to the priest shall be his.”
The Test for an Unfaithful Wife
Then the Lord said to Moses,
Then the Lord said to Moses,
A Test for Adultery
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
And the Lord 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 to the people of Israel, If any man’s wife goes astray and breaks faith with 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),
if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act,
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 if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself,
“ ‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord.
“And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the Lord.
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 earthenware vessel and take some 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 the Lord and unbind the hair of the woman’s head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings 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.
Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings 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 you have gone astray, though you are under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,
then’ (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) ‘the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh fall away and your body 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.”
May this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your womb swell and your thigh fall away.’ 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.
“Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.
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 make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.
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 the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the grain offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar.
And the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward 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 has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, 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 has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.
“ ‘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 in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,
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 comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife. Then he shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall carry out for her all this law.