Cleansing the Camps
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the Israelites that they put out of the camp, every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever has been made unclean by a corpse. 3 You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they do not defile their camp, where among them I dwell.”
4 The Israelites did so, and put them outside of the camp. As the Lord spoke to Moses, so the Israelites did.
Restitution for Trespasses
5 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 6 “Speak to the Israelites: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against the Lord, and that person is guilty, 7 then he shall confess his sin which he has committed, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, adding twenty percent of its worth to it and give it to him against whom he has trespassed.
8 But if the man has no close relative to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to the Lord shall be the priest’s, in addition to the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him. 9 Every heave offering of all the holy things of the Israelites, which they present to the priest, shall be his. 10 Every man’s holy things shall be his, whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’ ”
The Adultery Test
11 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, 13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act; 14 and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is not defiled; 15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring for her an offering: two quarts of barley. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
16 The priest shall bring her near and set her before the Lord. 17 The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.
18 The priest shall set the woman before the Lord and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose and put the grain offering of memorial in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
19 The priest shall make her take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse. 20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—” 21 then the priest shall make the woman swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the Lord allows your thigh to fall away and your body to swell; 22 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels and make your body swell and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”
23 The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness. 24 He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse, and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.
25 The priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the grain offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar. 26 The priest shall take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
27 When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people. 28 If the woman is not defiled, but is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive offspring.
29 This is the Law of Jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled, 30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife, then he shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute on her all of this law. 31 The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’ ”