Numbers Chapter 5

Numbers Chapter 5
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Command the children of Israel that
they put out of the host 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:
out of the host shall ye put them that they
defile not their tents among whom I
dwell.
4 And the children of Israel did so, and
put them out of the host, even as the Lord
had commanded 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, and transgress
against the Lord, when that person shall
trespass,
7 Then they shall confess their sin which
they have done, and shall restore the
damage thereof with his principal, and
put the fifth part of it more thereto, and
shall give it unto him, against whom he
hath trespassed.
8 But if the man have no kinsman, to
whom he should restore the damage, the
damage shall be restored to the Lord for
the priest’s use, besides the ram of the
atonement, whereby he shall make
atonement 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: that is, 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 turn to
evil, and commit a trespass against him,
13 So that another man lie with her
fleshly, and it be hid from the eyes of her
husband, and kept close, and yet she be
defiled, and there be no witness against
her, neither she taken with the manner,
14 If he be moved with a jealous mind,
so that he is jealous over his wife, which
is defiled, or if he have a jealous mind,
so that he is jealous over his wife, which
is not defiled,
15 Then shall the man bring his wife to
the priest, and bring her offering with
her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley
meal, but he shall not pour oil upon it,
nor put incense thereon: for it is an
offering of jealousy, an offering for a
remembrance, calling the sin to mind:
16 And the priest shall bring her, and set
her before the Lord. 17 Then the priest
shall take the holy water in an earthen
vessel, and of the dust that is in the floor
of the tabernacle, even the priest shall
take it and put it into the water.
18 After, the priest shall set the woman
before the Lord, and uncover the
woman’s head, and put the offering of
the memorial in her hands: it is the
jealousy offering, and the priest shall
have bitter and cursed water in his hand,
19 And the priest shall charge her by an
oath, and say unto the woman, If no man
have lain with thee, neither thou hast
turned to uncleanness from thine
husband, be free from this bitter and
cursed water.
20 But if thou hast turned from thine
husband, and so art defiled, and some
man hath 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 to be accursed, and
detestable for the oath among thy people,
and the Lord cause thy thigh to rot, and
thy belly to swell:
22 And that this cursed water may go
into thy bowels, to cause thy belly to
swell, and thy thigh to rot. Then the
woman shall answer, Amen, Amen. 23
After, the priest shall write these curses
in a book, and shall blot them out with
the bitter water,
24 And shall cause the woman to drink
the bitter and cursed water, and the
cursed water, turned into bitterness,
shall enter into her. 25 Then the priest
shall take the jealousy offering out of the
woman’s hand, and shall shake the
offering before the Lord, and offer it
upon the altar. 26 And the priest shall
take an handful of the offering for a
memorial thereof, and burn it upon the
altar, and afterward make the woman
drink the water. 27 When he hath made
her drink the water, (if she be defiled
and have trespassed against her
husband) then shall the cursed water,
turned into bitterness, enter into her, and
her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall
rot, and the woman shall be accursed
among her people.
28 But if the woman be not defiled, but
be clean, she shall be free and shall
conceive and bear.
29 This is the law of jealousy, when a
wife turneth from her husband and is
defiled,
30 Or when a man is moved with a
jealous mind being jealous over his wife
then shall he bring the woman before the
Lord, and the priest shall do to her
according to all this law,
31 And the man shall be free from sin,
but this woman shall bear her iniquity.