Bamidbar (Numbers) — 5

Ceremonially Unclean Persons Isolated

1 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to Musha, saying: 

2 “Command the children of Yashar'AL that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse. 

3 You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.” 

4 And the children of Yashar'AL did so, and put them outside the camp; as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH  Dabar to Musha, so the children of Yashar'AL did.

Confession and Restitution

5 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to Musha, saying, 

6 “Speak to the children of Yashar'AL: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit in unfaithfulness against  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, and that person is guilty, 

7 then he shall confess the sin which he has committed. He shall make restitution for his trespass in full, plus one-fifth of it, and give it to the one he has wronged. 

8 But if the man has no relative to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for the wrong must go to  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH for the Kuhan, in addition to the ram of the atonement with which atonement is made for him. 

9 Every offering of all the Qadash things of the children of Yashar'AL, which they bring to the Kuhan, shall be his. 

10 And every man’s Qadash things shall be his; whatever any man gives the Kuhan shall be his.’ ”

Concerning Unfaithful Wives

11 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to Musha, saying

12 “Speak to the children of Yashar'AL, and say to them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him, 

13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and it is concealed that she has defiled herself, and there was no witness against her, nor was she caught 

14 if the ruach of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, who has defiled herself; or if the ruach of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, although she has not defiled herself

15 then the man shall bring his wife to the Kuhan, he shall bring the offering required for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of jealousy, an offering for remembering, for bringing iniquity to remembrance.

16 ‘And the Kuhan shall bring her near, and set her before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. 

17 The Kuhan shall take Qadash water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water. 

18 Then the Kuhan shall stand the woman before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy, and the Kuhan shall have in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse. 

19 And the Kuhan shall put her under oath, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness while under your husband’s  authority, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse. 

20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you” 

21 then the Kuhan shall put the woman under the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman, “𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will make you a curse and an oath among your people, when 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH makes your thigh rot and your belly swell; 

22 and may this water that causes the curse go into your stomach, and make your belly swell and your thigh rot.”

‘Then the woman shall say, “So be it, so be it.”

23 ‘Then the Kuhan shall write these curses in a book, and he shall scrape them off into the bitter water. 

24 And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her to become bitter. 

25 Then the Kuhan shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, shall wave the offering before  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, and bring it to the altar; 

26 and the Kuhan shall take a handful of the offering, as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water. 

27 When the Kuhan has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, that the water that brings a curse will enter her and become bitter, and her belly will swell, her thigh will rot, and the woman will become a curse among her people. 

28 But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be free and may conceive children.

29 ‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife,  while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself, 

30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife; then he shall stand the woman before  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, and the Kuhan shall execute all this law upon her. 

31 Then the man shall be free from iniquity, but that woman shall bear her guilt.