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Numbers 5 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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On Defilement

(cf. Lev 15:1–33 )
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:1 - The LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - "Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one having a discharge, and every one that is unclean through contact with the dead;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - you shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:4 - And the people of Israel did so, and drove them outside the camp; as the LORD said to Moses, so the people of Israel did.
(Lev 6:1–7 )
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:5 - And the LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - "Say to the people of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that men commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person is guilty,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:7 - he shall confess his sin which he has committed; and he shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it, and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:8 - But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:9 - And every offering, all the holy things of the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:10 - and every man's holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives to the priest shall be his."

The Adultery Test

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:11 - And the LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12 - "Say to the people of Israel, If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - if a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - and if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:15 - then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a cereal offering of jealousy, a cereal offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:16 - "And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17 - and the priest shall take holy 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:18 - And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and unbind the hair of the woman's head, and place in her hands the cereal offering of remembrance, which is the cereal offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, 'If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness, while you were under your husband's authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - then' (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) 'the LORD make you an execration and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your body swell;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22 - may this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your body swell and your thigh fall away.' And the woman shall say, 'Amen, Amen.'
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 - "Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and wash them off into the water of bitterness;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:24 - and he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:25 - And the priest shall take the cereal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the cereal offering before the LORD and bring it to the altar;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:26 - and the priest shall take a handful of the cereal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has acted unfaithfully against her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become an execration among her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29 - "This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:30 - or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:31 - The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity."
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

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