1 Unclean Sent Outside the Camp Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is 5:2Or defiled, cf.5:3, 13, 14 unclean because of adeadperson.
3 You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp where I dwell in their midst.”
4 And the sons of Israel did so and sent them outside the camp; just as Yahweh had spoken to Moses, thus the sons of Israel did.Restitution for Sins
5 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
6 “Speak to the sons of Israel, ‘When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against Yahweh, and that person is guilty,
7 then 5:7 Lit they he shall confess 5:7 Lit their his sins which 5:7 Lit they have he has committed, and he shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it and giveitto him whom he has 5:7 Lit guilty wronged.
8 But if the man has nokinsmanredeemer to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution which is made for the wrongmust goto Yahweh for the priest, besides the ram of atonement, by which atonement is made for him.
9 Also every 5:9Lit heave offering contribution pertaining to all the holygiftsof the sons of Israel, which they bring near to the priest, shall be his.
10 So every man’s holygiftsshall be his; whatever any man gives to the priest, it becomes his.’ ”The Statutes of Jealousy
11 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
12 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,
13 and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is 5:13 Lit concealed undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and she has not been caught in the act,
14 5:14Lit and if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife and she has defiled herself, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife but she has not defiled herself,
15 the man shall then bring his wife to the priest and shall bringas 5:15Lit her an offering for her one-tenth of an 5:15An ephah was approx. 21 qt. or 23 l ephah of barley meal; he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, a reminder of iniquity.
16 ‘Then the priest shall bring her near and have her stand before Yahweh,
17 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and putitinto the water.
18 The priest shall then have the woman stand before Yahweh and letthe hair ofthe woman’s head go loose, and he shall place the grain offering of remembrance 5:18 Lit on her palms in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest is to be the water of bitterness that brings curses.
19 Then the priest shall have her swearan oathand shall say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray into 5:19Or uncleanness defilement,beingunderthe authority ofyour husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings curses;
20 if you, however, have gone astray,beingunderthe authority ofyour husband, and if you have defiled yourself, and a man other than your husband has lain with you”
21 (then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people by Yahweh making your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell;
22 and this water that brings curses shall go into your 5:22 Or inward parts stomach and make your abdomen swell and your thigh fall away.” And the woman shall say, “Amen. Amen.”
23 ‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall 5:23Lit wipe wash them off into the water of bitterness.
24 Then he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings curses, so that the water which brings a curse will go into her to cause bitterness.
25 And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, and he shall wave the grain offering before Yahweh and bring it near to the altar;
26 and the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial offering and offeritup in smoke on the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman drink the water.
27 So he will have her drink the water, and it will be that, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings curses will go into her tocausebitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.
28 But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will then be free and conceive a seed.
29 ‘This is the law of jealousy: when a wife,beingunderthe authority ofher husband, goes astray and defiles herself,
30 or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he shall then make the woman stand before Yahweh, and the priest shall apply all this law to her.
31 Moreover, the man will be free from 5:31 Or iniquity guilt, but that woman shall bear her 5:31 Or iniquity guilt.’ ”