Números 5

¹ And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saying,

² Commaund the children of Israel that they put out of the hoste euery leper, and euery one that hath an issue, and whosoeuer is defiled by the dead.

³ Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in theThere were three types of tents: of the Lord, of the Levites, and of the Israelites.midst whereof I dwell.

⁴ And the children of Israel did so, and put them out of the host, euen as the Lord had commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

⁵ And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saying,

⁶ Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sinCommit any fault willingly.that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;

⁷ Then they shall confesse their sinne which they haue done, and shall restore the domage thereof with his principall, and put the fift part of it more thereto, and shall giue it vnto him, against whom he hath trespassed.

⁸ But if theIf he is dead to whom the wrong is done and also has no relatives.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.

⁹ And every offering of all theOr, things offered to the Lord, as first fruits, etc.holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

¹⁰ And euery mans halowed things shall bee his: that is, whatsoeuer any man giueth the Priest, it shalbe his.

¹¹ And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

¹² Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wifeBy breaking the band of marriage, and playing the harlot.go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

¹³ So that an other man lie with her fleshly, and it bee hid from the eyes of her husbande, and kept close, and yet she be defiled, and there be no witnesse against her, neither she taken with the maner,

¹⁴ If he be moued with a ielous minde, so that he is ielous ouer his wife, which is defiled, or if he haue a ielous minde, so that he is ielous ouer his wife, which is not defiled,

¹⁵ 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 noOnly in the sin offering, and so this offering of jealousy were neither oil nor incense offered.oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it [is] an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity toOr, making the sin known, and not purging it.remembrance.

¹⁶ And the Priest shall bring her, and set her before the Lord.

¹⁷ And the priest shall takeWhich also is called the water of purification of sprinkling, read (Num_19:9).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:

¹⁸ 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 theIt was so called by the effect, because it declared the woman to be accursed, and turned to her destruction.curse:

¹⁹ And the Priest shall charge her by an oth, and say vnto the woman, If no man haue lien with thee, neither thou hast turned to vncleannesse from thine husbande, be free from this bitter and cursed water.

²⁰ But if thou hast turned fro thine husband, and so art defiled, and some man hath lyen with thee beside thine husband,

²¹ Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee aBoth because she had committed so heinous a fault, and forswore herself in denying the same.curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

²² 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,That is, may it be as you wished, as in (Psa_41:13; Deu_27:15).Amen, amen.

²³ And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shallShall wash the curses, which are written, into the water in the vessel.blot [them] out with the bitter water:

²⁴ And shal cause the woman to drinke ye bitter and cursed water, and the cursed water, turned into bitternesse, shal enter into her.

²⁵ Then the Priest shall take the ielousie offring out of the womans hand, and shal shake the offring before the Lord, and offer it vpon ye altar.

²⁶ And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, [even] the memorial thereof, and burn [it] upon theWhere the incense was offered.altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.

²⁷ When yee haue made her drinke the water, (if she bee defiled and haue trespassed against her husband) then shall the cursed water, turned into bitternesse, enter into her, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shal be accursed among her people.

²⁸ But if the woman bee not defiled, but bee cleane, she shalbe free & shall conceiue & beare.

²⁹ This is the law of ielousie, when a wife turneth from her husband and is defiled,

³⁰ Or when a man is moued with a ielous minde being ielous ouer his wife then shall he bring the woman before the Lord, and the Priest shal do to her according to al this lawe,

³¹ Then shall the man beThe man might accuse his wife on suspicion and not be reproved.guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.