| Chapter
5 |
| 1 | And the
LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 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. |
|
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, |
| 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; |
| 7 | 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. |
| 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; |
| 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: |
| 18 | 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: |
| 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. |
| 23 | 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. |
| 27 | 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. |
| 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; |
| 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. |
