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The Purity of the Camp
The Lord said to Moses,
The Lord said to Moses,
Purity in Israel’s Camp
The LORD gave these instructions to Moses:
The LORD gave these instructions to Moses:
Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
This command applies to men and women alike. Remove them so they will not defile the camp in which I live among them.”
The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the Lord had instructed Moses.
So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses and removed such people from the camp.
“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel: If any of the people — men or women — betray the LORD by doing wrong to another person, they are 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.
They must confess their sin and make full restitution for what they have done, adding an additional 20 percent and returning it to the person who was 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.
All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.
All the sacred offerings that the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.
Sacred things belong to their owners, but what they give to the priest will belong to the priest.’ ”
Each priest may keep all the sacred donations that he receives.”
The Test for an Unfaithful Wife
Then the Lord said to Moses,
Then the Lord said to Moses,
Protecting Marital Faithfulness
And the LORD said to Moses,
“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel.
“Suppose a man’s wife goes astray, and she is unfaithful to her husband
“Suppose a man’s wife goes astray, and she is unfaithful to her husband
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 has sex with another man, but neither her husband nor anyone else knows about it. She has defiled herself, even though there was no witness and she was not caught 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 —
If her husband becomes jealous and is suspicious of his wife and needs to know whether or not she has defiled herself,
“ ‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord.
“The priest will then present her to stand trial 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.
He must take some holy water in a clay jar and pour into it dust he has taken from the Tabernacle floor.
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.
When the priest has presented the woman before the LORD, he must unbind her hair and place in her hands the offering of proof — the jealousy offering to determine whether her husband’s suspicions are justified. The priest will stand before her, holding the jar of bitter water that brings a curse to those who are guilty.
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.
The priest will then put the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has had sex with you, and you have not gone astray and defiled yourself while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune from the effects of this bitter water that brings on 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 by being unfaithful to your husband, and have defiled yourself by having sex with another man — ’
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.”
“ ‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.
And the priest will write these curses on a piece of leather and wash them off into 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.
He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings on the curse. When the water enters her body, it will cause bitter suffering if she is guilty.
The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to the altar.
“The priest will take the jealousy offering from the woman’s hand, lift it up before the LORD, and carry it to the altar.
He will take a handful of the flour as a token portion and burn it on the altar, and he will require the woman to 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.
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 she has not defiled herself and is pure, then she will be unharmed and will still be able to have 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 ritual law for dealing with suspicion. If a woman goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,
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 if a man becomes jealous and is suspicious that his wife has been unfaithful, the husband must present his wife before the LORD, and the priest will apply this entire ritual law to her.