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Chapter 5 |
| 1 | And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying, |
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2 | 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 the dead: |
| 3 | Both male and female shall ye
put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps,
in the midst whereof I dwell. |
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4 | And the children of Israel did so, and
put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the
children of Israel. |
| 5 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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| 6 | Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any
sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be
guilty; |
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Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he
shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the
fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
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| 8 | But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the
trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of
the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. |
| 9 | And every
offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring
unto the priest, shall be his. |
| 10 | And every man's hallowed
things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be
his. |
| 11 |
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 12 | Speak unto
the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and
commit a trespass against him, |
| 13 | And a man lie with her
carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and
she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with
the manner; |
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14 | And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be
jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon
him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: |
| 15 | Then
shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering
for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon
it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an
offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. |
| 16 | And the
priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: |
| 17 | And the
priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in
the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the
water: |
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| And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and
uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which
is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter
water that causeth the curse: |
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19 | And the priest shall charge her by an
oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast
not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free
from this bitter water that causeth the curse: |
| 20 | But if thou
hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and
some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: |
| 21 | Then the
priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say
unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when
the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; |
| 22 | And
this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly
to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. |
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And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out
with the bitter water: |
| 24 | And he shall cause the woman to drink the
bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall
enter into her, and become bitter. |
| 25 | Then the priest shall take
the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering
before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar: |
| 26 | And the
priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and
burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the
water. |
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| And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it
shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her
husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become
bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall
be a curse among her people. |
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28 | And if the woman be not defiled, but
be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. |
| 29 | This is
the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her
husband, and is defiled; |
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30 | Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh
upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the
LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. |
| 31 | Then
shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her
iniquity. |
