Numbers 5

Some Camp Rules

5GOD spoke to Moses:H3068H1696H4872H5592"Command the People of Israel to ban from the camp anyone who has an infectious skin disease, anyone who has a discharge, and anyone who is ritually unclean from contact with a dead body.H6680H1121H3478H7971H4264H6879H2100H2931H53153Ban male and female alike; send them outside the camp so that they won't defile their camp, the place I live among them."H2145H5347H7971H2351H4264H7971H2930H4264H8432H834H79314The People of Israel did this, banning them from the camp. They did exactly what GOD had commanded through Moses.H1121H3478H6213H7971H2351H4264H3068H1696H4872H6213H1121H34785GOD spoke to Moses:H3068H1696H4872H5596"Tell the People of Israel, When a man or woman commits any sin, the person has broken trust with GOD, is guilty,H1696H1121H3478H376H802H6213H2403H120H4603H4604H3068H5315H8167and must confess the sin. Full compensation plus twenty percent must be made to whoever was wronged.H3034H2403H6213H7725H817H7218H3254H2549H5414H8168If the wronged person has no close relative who can receive the compensation, the compensation belongs to GOD and must be given to the priest, along with the ram by which atonement is made.H376H1350H7725H817H817H7725H3068H3548H352H3725H37229All the sacred offerings that the People of Israel bring to a priest belong to the priest.H8641H6944H1121H3478H7126H354810Each person's sacred offerings are his own, but what one gives to the priest stays with the priest."H376H6944H376H5414H354811GOD spoke to Moses:H3068H1696H4872H55912"Tell the People of Israel, Say a man's wife goes off and has an affair, is unfaithful to himH1696H1121H3478H559H376H376H802H7847H4603H460413by sleeping with another man, but her husband knows nothing about it even though she has defiled herself. And then, even though there was no witness and she wasn't caught in the act,H376H7901H7902H2233H5956H5869H376H5641H2930H5707H861014feelings of jealousy come over the husband and he suspects that his wife is impure. Even if she is innocent and his jealousy and suspicions are groundless,H7307H7068H5674H7065H802H2930H7307H7068H5674H7065H802H293015he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of two quarts of barley flour for her. He is to pour no oil on it or mix incense with it because it is a Grain-Offering for jealousy, a Grain-Offering for bringing the guilt out into the open.H376H935H802H3548H935H7133H6224H374H8184H7058H3332H8081H5414H3828H4503H7068H4503H2146H2142H5771H214216"The priest then is to take her and have her stand in the presence of GOD.H3548H7126H5975H6440H306817He is to take some holy water in a pottery jar and put some dust from the floor of The Dwelling in the water.H3548H3947H6918H4325H2789H3627H6083H7172H4908H3548H3947H5414H432518After the priest has her stand in the presence of GOD he is to uncover her hair and place the exposure-offering in her hands, the Grain-Offering for jealousy, while he holds the bitter water that delivers a curse.H3548H5975H802H6440H3068H6544H802H7218H5414H4503H2146H3709H7068H4503H3548H3027H4751H4325H77919Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say, 'If no man has slept with you and you have not had an adulterous affair and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that delivers a curse not harm you.H3548H7650H559H802H376H7901H7847H2932H376H5352H4751H4325H77920But if you have had an affair while married to your husband and have defiled yourself by sleeping with a man other than your husband'—H7847H376H2930H376H5414H7903H1107H37621here the priest puts the woman under this curse—'may GOD cause your people to curse and revile you when he makes your womb shrivel and your belly swell.H3548H7650H802H7621H423H3548H559H802H3068H5414H423H7621H8432H5971H3068H5414H3409H5307H990H663922Let this water that delivers a curse enter your body so that your belly swells and your womb shrivels.' "Then the woman shall say, 'Amen. Amen.'H4325H779H935H4578H990H6638H3409H5307H802H559H543H54323"The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash the words off into the bitter water.H3548H3789H423H5612H4229H4751H432524He then is to give the woman the bitter water that delivers a curse. This water will enter her body and cause acute pain.H802H8248H4751H4325H779H4325H779H935H475125The priest then is to take from her hands a handful of the Grain-Offering for jealousy, wave it before GOD, and bring it to the Altar.H3548H3947H7068H4503H802H3027H5130H4503H6440H3068H7126H419626The priest then is to take a handful of the Grain-Offering, using it as an exposure-offering, and burn it on the Altar; after this he is to make her drink the water.H3548H7061H4503H234H6999H4196H310H802H8248H432527If she has defiled herself in being unfaithful to her husband, when she drinks the water that delivers a curse, it will enter her body and cause acute pain; her belly will swell and her womb shrivel. She will be cursed among her people.H8248H4325H2930H4603H4604H376H4325H779H935H4751H990H6638H3409H5307H802H423H7130H597128But if she has not defiled herself and is innocent of impurity, her name will be cleared and she will be able to have children.H802H2930H2889H5352H2232H223329"This is the law of jealousy in a case where a woman goes off and has an affair and defiles herself while married to her husband,H8451H7068H802H7847H376H293030or a husband is tormented with feelings of jealousy because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand in the presence of GOD and go through this entire procedure with her.H7307H7068H5674H376H7065H802H5975H802H6440H3068H3548H6213H845131The husband will be cleared of wrong, but the woman will pay for her wrong."H376H5352H5771H1931H802H5375H5771