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* And the Lord spoke unto Moses , saying , * Command the children of Israel , that they send out of the camp every leper , and every one that hath an issue , and whosoever is defiled by the dead : * Both male and female shall ye send out , to without the camp shall ye send them ; that they defile not their camps , in the midst whereof I dwell . * And the children of Israel did so , and they sent them out to without the camp : as the Lord had spoken unto Moses , so did the children of Israel . * And the Lord spoke unto Moses , saying , * Speak unto the children of Israel , If any man or woman commit any sin against a fellow –man , thereby doing a trespass against the Lord , and this person thus become guilty : * Then shall they confess their sin which they have committed ; and he shall make restitution for his trespass with the principal thereof , and its fifth part shall he add thereto , and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed . * But if the man have no kinsman to whom restitution could be made for the trespass , then shall the trespass which is restored unto the Lord , belong to the priest ; besides the ram of the atonement , whereby an atonement shall be made for him . * And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel , which they bring unto the priest , shall be his . * And every man ’s hallowed things shall be his : whatsoever any man giveth to the priest , shall belong to him . * And the Lord spoke unto Moses , saying , * Speak unto the children of Israel , and say unto them , If the wife of any man go aside , and commit a trespass against him , * And a man lie with her carnally , and it be hidden from the eyes of her husband , because she hath been secretly defiled ; and there be no witness against her , and she have not been detected and in the fact ; * And the spirit of jealousy come over him , and he be jealous of his wife , and she have been defiled ; or the spirit of jealousy come over 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 , the tenth part of an ephah of barley –meal ; he shall not pour any oil upon it , nor put any frankincense thereupon ; for it is a meat –offering of jealousy , a meat –offering of memorial , bringing iniquity to remembrance . * And the priest shall bring her near , and place her before the Lord ; * And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel ; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take , and put it into the water ; * And the priest shall place the woman before the Lord , and uncover the woman ’s head , and put upon her hands the meat –offering of memorial , it is the meat –offering of jealousy ; and in the hand of the priest shall be the bitter waters that bring the curse . * And the priest shall charge her by an oath , and he shall say unto the woman , If no man have lain with thee , and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness behind thy husband : then be thou free from these bitter waters that bring the curse . * But if thou hast gone aside behind thy husband , and if thou hast been defiled , and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband :–– * And the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of imprecation , and the priest shall say unto the woman , The Lord then make thee a curse and an oath among thy people , when the Lord doth cause thy thigh to fall away , and thy belly to swell ; * And these waters that bring the curse shall go into thy bowels , to cause the belly to swell , and the thigh to fall away ; and the woman shall say , Amen , amen . * And the priest shall write these curses on a roll , and he shall blot them out with the bitter waters . * And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter waters that bring the curse : and the waters that bring the curse shall enter into her for bitterness . * And the priest shall take out of the woman ’s hand the meat –offering of jealousy , and he shall wave the meat –offering before the Lord , and bring it near to the altar : * And the priest shall take a handful from the meat –offering , as its memorial , and burn it upon the altar , and after that shall he cause the woman to drink the water . * And when he hath made her drink the water , then shall it come to pass , if she have been defiled , and have committed a trespass against her husband , that the waters that bring the curse shall enter into her , for bitterness , and her belly shall swell , and her thigh shall fall away ; and the woman shall become a curse among her people . * And if the woman have not been defiled , but be clean : then shall she remain unharmed , and she shall conceive seed . * This is the law of jealousies , when a woman goeth aside behind her husband , and hath been defiled ; * Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh over him , and he be jealous of his wife ; and he shall place the woman before the Lord , and the priest shall do unto her altogether according to this law . * And the man shall be guiltless from iniquity ; but this woman shall bear her iniquity .

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