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* And the Lorde spake vnto Moses , saying , * 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 . * Both male and female shall ye put out , without the camp shall ye put them ; that they defile not their camps , in the (note :)There were three types of tents : of the Lord , of the Levites , and of the Israelites .(:note ) midst whereof I dwell . * 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 . * And the Lorde spake vnto Moses , saying , * Speak unto the children of Israel , When a man or woman shall commit any sin (note :)Commit any fault willingly .(:note ) that men commit , to do a trespass against the LORD , and that person be guilty ; * 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 . * But if the (note :)If he is dead to whom the wrong is done and also has no relatives .(:note ) 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 . * And every offering of all the (note :)Or , things offered to the Lord , as first fruits , etc .(:note ) holy things of the children of Israel , which they bring unto the priest , shall be his . * And euery mans halowed things shall bee his : that is , whatsoeuer any man giueth the Priest , it shalbe his . * And the Lord spake vnto Moses , saying , * Speak unto the children of Israel , and say unto them , If any man 's wife (note :)By breaking the band of marriage , and playing the harlot .(:note ) go aside , and commit a trespass against him , * 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 , * 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 , * 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 no (note :)Only in the sin offering , and so this offering of jealousy were neither oil nor incense offered .(:note ) oil upon it , nor put frankincense thereon ; for it [is ] an offering of jealousy , an offering of memorial , bringing iniquity to Or , making the sin known , and not purging it . remembrance . * And the Priest shall bring her , and set her before the Lord . * And the priest shall take (note :)Which also is called the water of purification of sprinkling , read ( Num_19:9 ).(:note ) 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 : * 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 the (note :)It was so called by the effect , because it declared the woman to be accursed , and turned to her destruction .(:note ) curse : * 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 . * But if thou hast turned fro thine husband , and so art defiled , and some man hath lyen with thee beside thine husband , * Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing , and the priest shall say unto the woman , The LORD make thee a (note :)Both because she had committed so heinous a fault , and forswore herself in denying the same .(:note ) curse and an oath among thy people , when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot , and thy belly to swell ; * 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 , (note :)That is , may it be as you wished , as in ( Psa_41:13 ; Deu_27:15 ).(:note ) Amen , amen . * And the priest shall write these curses in a book , and he shall (note :)Shall wash the curses , which are written , into the water in the vessel .(:note ) blot [them ] out with the bitter water : * And shal cause the woman to drinke ye bitter and cursed water , and the cursed water , turned into bitternesse , shal enter into her . * 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 . * And the priest shall take an handful of the offering , [even ] the memorial thereof , and burn [it ] upon the (note :)Where the incense was offered .(:note ) altar , and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water . * 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 . * But if the woman bee not defiled , but bee cleane , she shalbe free &amp ; shall conceiue &amp ; beare . * This is the law of ielousie , when a wife turneth from her husband and is defiled , * 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 , * Then shall the man be (note :)The man might accuse his wife on suspicion and not be reproved .(:note ) guiltless from iniquity , and this woman shall bear her iniquity .

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