The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the people of Israel
that they put out of the camp everyone who is leprous or has a
discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the
dead. 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.” 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.
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, he shall confess his sin that he has committed. And he
shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it and
giving it to him to whom he did the wrong. 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. And every contribution, all the holy donations of the people
of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his. Each one
shall keep his holy donations: whatever anyone gives to the priest
shall be his.”
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of
Israel, If any man's wife goes astray and breaks faith with him, 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 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, then the man shall bring his wife to the priest
and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of
barley flour. He shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on
it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of
remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
“And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the LORD.
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. 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
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, 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 the curse pass into your bowels and make
your womb swell and your thigh fall away.’ And the woman shall say,
‘Amen, Amen.’
“Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them
off into the water of bitterness. 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. 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. 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. But if the woman has not defiled herself
and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.
“This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under
her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself, 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. The man shall be free from
iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”
