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* And Jehovah spoke to Moses , saying , * Command the children of Israel , that they put out of the camp every leper , and every one that hath an issue , and whosoever is defiled by a dead person : * both male and female shall ye put out ; outside the camp shall ye put them , that they defile not their camps , in the midst whereof I dwell . * And the children of Israel did so , and put them outside the camp : as Jehovah had said to Moses , so did the children of Israel . * And Jehovah spoke to Moses , saying , * Speak unto the children of Israel , When a man or woman shall commit any of all the sins of man to work unfaithfulness against Jehovah , and that soul is guilty , * then they shall confess their sin which they have done ; and he shall recompense his trespass according to the principal thereof , and shall add unto it the fifth part thereof , and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed . * And if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto , the trespass which is recompensed to Jehovah shall be the priest 's , besides the ram of the atonement , wherewith an atonement is made for him . * And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel , which they present unto the priest , shall be his . * And every man 's hallowed things shall be his : whatever any man giveth the priest shall be his . * And Jehovah spoke to Moses , saying , * Speak unto the children of Israel , and say unto them , If any man 's wife go astray , and commit unfaithfulness against him , * and a man lie with her carnally , and it be hid from the eyes of her husband , and she be defiled in secret , and there be no witness against her , and she have not been caught ; * and the spirit of jealousy come upon him , and he be jealous of his wife , and she have been defiled , -- or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him , and he be jealous of his wife , and she have not been defiled , * -- then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest , and he shall bring her offering for her , a tenth part of an ephah of barley-meal ; he shall pour no oil upon it , nor put frankincense thereon ; for it is an oblation of jealousy , a memorial oblation , bringing iniquity to remembrance . * And the priest shall bring her near , and set her before Jehovah . * And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel ; and the priest shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle , and put it into the water . * And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah , and uncover the woman 's head , and put the memorial oblation in her hands , which is the jealousy offering ; and in the hand of the priest shall be the bitter water that bringeth the curse . * And the priest shall adjure her , and say unto the woman , If no man have lain with thee , and if thou hast not gone astray in uncleanness , in being with another instead of thy husband , be free from this bitter water that bringeth the curse . * But if thou hast gone astray to another instead of thy husband , and hast been defiled , and a man other than thy husband have lain with thee , * -- then the priest shall adjure the woman with the oath of cursing , and the priest shall say unto the woman : Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people , when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to shrink , and thy belly to swell ; * and this water that bringeth the curse shall enter into thy bowels , to make the belly to swell , and the thigh to shrink . And the woman shall say , Amen , amen . * And the priest shall write these curses in a book , and shall blot them out with the bitter water , * and he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that bringeth the curse , that the water that bringeth the curse may enter into her for bitterness . * And the priest shall take out of the woman 's hand the oblation of jealousy , and shall wave the oblation before Jehovah , and shall present it at the altar . * And the priest shall take a handful of the oblation as a memorial thereof , and burn it upon the altar ; and afterwards he shall make the woman drink the water . * And when he hath made her to drink the water , then it shall come to pass , if she have been defiled , and have committed unfaithfulness against her husband , that the water that bringeth the curse shall enter into her , for bitterness , and her belly shall swell , and her thigh shall shrink ; and the woman shall become a curse among her people . * But if the woman have not been defiled , and be clean , then she shall be clear , and shall conceive seed . * This is the law of jealousies , when a wife goeth astray to another instead of her husband and is defiled , * or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man , and he is jealous as regards his wife ; then shall he set the woman before Jehovah , and the priest shall do to her according to all this law . * Then shall the man be free from iniquity , but that woman shall bear her iniquity .

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