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Chapter 5
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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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; |
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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. |
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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. |
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And every offering of all the holy things of the children
of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his. |
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And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever
any man giveth the priest, it shall be his. |
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against
him, |
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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; |
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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: |
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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. |
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And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before
the LORD: |
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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: |
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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: |
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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: |
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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: |
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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; |
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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. |
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And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and
he shall blot them out with the bitter water: |
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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. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she
shall be free, and shall conceive seed. |
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This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside
to another instead of her husband, and is defiled; |
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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. |
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Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this
woman shall bear her iniquity. |
