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Numbers 5 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Unclean Sent Outside the Camp

(cf. Lev 15:1–33 )
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Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - “Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is [fn]unclean because of a dead person.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - “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.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:4 - 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

(Lev 6:1–7 )
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Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - “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,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:7 - then [fn]he shall confess [fn]his sins which [fn]he has committed, and he shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it and give it to him whom he has [fn]wronged.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:8 - ‘But if the man has no kinsman redeemer to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution which is made for the wrong must go to Yahweh for the priest, besides the ram of atonement, by which atonement is made for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:9 - ‘Also every [fn]contribution pertaining to all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they bring near to the priest, shall be his.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:10 - ‘So every man’s holy gifts shall be his; whatever any man gives to the priest, it becomes his.’”

The Statutes of Jealousy

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Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12 - “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is [fn]undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and she has not been caught in the act,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - [fn]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,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:15 - the man shall then bring his wife to the priest and shall bring as [fn]an offering for her one-tenth of an [fn]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.
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‘Then the priest shall bring her near and have her stand before Yahweh,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17 - 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 put it into the water.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:18 - ‘The priest shall then have the woman stand before Yahweh and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and he shall place the grain offering of remembrance [fn]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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - ‘Then the priest shall have her swear an oath and shall say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray into [fn]defilement, being under the authority of your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings curses;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - if you, however, have gone astray, being under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself, and a man other than your husband has lain with you”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - (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;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22 - and this water that brings curses shall go into your [fn]stomach and make your abdomen swell and your thigh fall away.” And the woman shall say, “Amen. Amen.”
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‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall [fn]wash them off into the water of bitterness.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:24 - ‘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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:25 - ‘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;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:26 - and the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial offering and offer it up in smoke on the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman drink the water.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - ‘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 to cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - ‘But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will then be free and conceive a seed.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29 -

‘This is the law of jealousy: when a wife, being under the authority of her husband, goes astray and defiles herself,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:30 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:31 - ‘Moreover, the man will be free from [fn]guilt, but that woman shall bear her [fn]guilt.’”
LSB Footnotes
Or defiled, cf. 5:3, 13, 14
Lit they
Lit their
Lit they have
Lit guilty
Lit heave offering
Lit concealed
Lit and
Lit her
An ephah was approx. 21 qt. or 23 l
Lit on her palms
Or uncleanness
Or inward parts
Lit wipe
Or iniquity
Or iniquity
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