Numbers 5
1And
the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2Command
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:
3Both 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.
4And 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.
5And
the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6Speak
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;
7Then 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.
8But 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.
9And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they
bring unto the priest, shall be his.
10And
every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
11And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass
against him,
13And 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;
14And 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:
15Then
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.
16And the
priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
17And
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:
18And 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:
19And 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:
20But
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:
21Then 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;
22And 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.
23And
the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
24And 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.
25Then 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:
26And
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.
27And
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.
28And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
29This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of
her husband, and is defiled;
30Or 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.
31Then
shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.