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drb @Numbers:5:1 @And the Lord spoke to Moses , saying : drb @Numbers:5:2 @Command the children of Israel , that they cast out of the camp every leper , and whosoever hath an issue of seed , or is defiled by the dead : drb @Numbers:5:3 @Whether it be man or woman , cast ye them out of the camp , lest they defile it when I shall dwell with you . drb @Numbers:5:4 @And the children of Israel did so , and they cast them forth without the camp , as the Lord had spoken to Moses . drb @Numbers:5:5 @And the Lord spoke to Moses , saying : drb @Numbers:5:6 @Say to the children of Israel : When a man or woman shall have committed any of all the sins that men are wont to commit , and by negligence shall have transgressed the commandment of the Lord , and offended , drb @Numbers:5:7 @They shall confess their sin , and restore the principal itself , and the fifth part over and above , to him against whom they have sinned . drb @Numbers:5:8 @But if there be no one to receive it , they shall give it to the Lord , and it shall be the priest 's , besides the ram that is offered for expiation , to be an atoning sacrifice . drb @Numbers:5:9 @an the firstfruits also , which the children of Israel offer , belong to the priest : drb @Numbers:5:10 @And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one , and is delivered into the hands of the priest , it shall be his . drb @Numbers:5:11 @And the Lord spoke to Moses , saying : drb @Numbers:5:12 @Speak to the children of Israel , and thou shalt say to them : The man whose wife shall have gone astray , and contemning her husband , drb @Numbers:5:13 @Shall have slept with another man , and her husband cannot discover it , but the adultery is secret , and cannot be proved by witnesses , because she was not found in the adultery : drb @Numbers:5:14 @If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife , who either is defiled , or is charged with false suspicion , drb @Numbers:5:15 @He shall bring her to the priest , and shall offer an oblation for her , the tenth part of a measure of barley meal : he shall not pour oil thereon , nor put frank - incense upon it : because it is a sacrifice of jealousy , and an oblation searching out adultery . drb @Numbers:5:16 @The priest therefore shall offer it , and set it before the Lord . drb @Numbers:5:17 @And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel , and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it . drb @Numbers:5:18 @And when the woman shall stand before the Lord , he shall uncover her head , and shall , put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance , and the oblation of jealousy : and he himself shall hold the most bitter waters , whereon he hath heaped curses with execration . drb @Numbers:5:19 @And he shall adjure her , and shall say : If another man hath not slept with thee , and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband 's bed , these most bitter waters , on which I have heaped curses , shall not hurt thee . drb @Numbers:5:20 @But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband , and art defiled , and hast lain with another man : drb @Numbers:5:21 @These curses shall light upon thee : The Lord make thee a curse , and an example for all among his people : may he make thy thigh to rot , and may thy belly swell and burst asunder . drb @Numbers:5:22 @Let the cursed waters enter into thy belly , and may thy womb swell and thy thigh rot . And the woman shall answer , Amen , amen . drb @Numbers:5:23 @And the priest shall write these curses in a book , and shall wash them out with the most bitter waters , upon which he hath heaped the curses , drb @Numbers:5:24 @And he shall give them her to drink . And when she hath drunk them up , drb @Numbers:5:25 @The priest shall take from her hand the sacrifice of jealousy , and shall elevate it before the Lord , and shall put it upon the altar : yet so as first , drb @Numbers:5:26 @To take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered , and burn it upon the altar : and so give the most bitter waters to the woman to drink . drb @Numbers:5:27 @And when she hath drunk them , if she be defiled , and having despised her husband be guilty of adultery , the malediction shall go through her , and her belly swelling , her thigh shall rot : and the woman shall be a curse , and an example to all the people . drb @Numbers:5:28 @But if she be not defiled , she shall not be hurt , and shall bear children . drb @Numbers:5:29 @This is the law of jealousy . If a woman hath gone aside from her husband , and be defiled , drb @Numbers:5:30 @And the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her before the Lord , and the priest do to her according to all things that are here written : drb @Numbers:5:31 @The husband shall be blameless , and she shall bear her iniquity .

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