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The Fourth Book of Moses: Called Numbers, Chapter 5
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Command the children ofIsrael, 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 childrenof 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 thechildren 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.
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