1 T he Lord said to Moses,

The Lord said to Moses,

2 “ Tell the people of Israel to send away from the tents every person with a bad skin disease, every one with a flow that is unclean, and every one who is unclean because of a dead person.

Command the Israelites that they put outside the camp every leper and everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is defiled by the dead.

3 S end away both male and female. Send them away from the tents so they will not make the place sinful where I live among them.”

Both male and female you shall put out; without the camp you shall put them, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.

4 T he people of Israel did so. They sent them away from the tents. The people of Israel did just as the Lord had said to Moses. Paying Back for Wrongs Done

The Israelites did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord said to Moses, so the Israelites did.

5 T hen the Lord said to Moses,

And the Lord said to Moses,

6 “ Say to the people of Israel, ‘When a man or woman sins the way that man sins by not acting in faith toward the Lord, and that person is guilty,

Say to the Israelites, When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit by breaking faith with the Lord, and that person is guilty,

7 t hen he must tell about the sins he has done. He must pay in full for his wrong-doing, and add one-fifth part to it, and give it to the one he has sinned against.

Then he shall confess the sin which he has committed, and he shall make restitution for his wrong in full, and add a fifth to it, and give it to him whom he has wronged.

8 B ut if the man has no brother to whom pay for the wrong can be made, then it must go to the Lord for the religious leader. He must also give a ram to pay for his sins. And his sins will be forgiven.

But if the man has no kinsman to whom the restitution may be made, let it be given to the Lord for the priest, besides the ram of atonement with which atonement shall be made for the offender.

9 E very gift of all the holy things of the Israelites which they bring to the religious leader will become his.

And every offering of all the holy things of the Israelites which they bring to the priest shall be his.

10 S o every man’s holy gifts will be his. Whatever any man gives to the religious leader will be his.’” Wives Who Are Not Faithful

And every man’s hallowed things shall be the priest’s; whatever any man gives the priest shall be his.

11 T he Lord said to Moses,

And the Lord said to Moses,

12 “ Say to the people of Israel, ‘If a man’s wife turns away and is not faithful to him,

Say to the Israelites, If any man’s wife goes astray and commits an offense of guilt against him,

13 a nd another man has sex with her and it is hidden from her husband’s eyes, even if it is hidden, she will be unclean. And even if no one speaks against her, because she has not been caught in the act,

And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and it is kept secret though she is defiled, and there is no witness against her nor was she taken in the act,

14 b ut a spirit of jealousy comes over her husband, he will be jealous of his wife when she has made herself unclean. Or if he becomes jealous of his wife when she has done nothing to make herself unclean,

And if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous and suspicious of his wife who has defiled herself—or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous and suspicious of his wife though she has not defiled herself—

15 t hen the man must bring his wife to the religious leader. He must bring one-tenth part of a basket of barley as the gift needed for her. He must not pour oil on it. He must not put special perfume on it. For it is a grain gift of jealousy. It is a grain gift to make the sin remembered.

Then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal; but he shall pour no oil upon it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a cereal offering of jealousy and suspicion, a memorial offering bringing iniquity to remembrance.

16 ‘ Then the religious leader will bring her near and have her stand before the Lord.

And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the Lord.

17 T he religious leader will take holy water in a clay pot. He will take some of the dust on the floor of the meeting tent and put it into the water.

And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it in the water.

18 T hen the religious leader will have the woman stand before the Lord and let the hair of the woman’s head hang loose. He will put the grain gift of remembering into her hands. It is the grain gift of jealousy. In the religious leader’s hand will be the bitter water that can bring a curse to the woman.

And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and let the hair of the woman’s head hang loose, and put the meal offering of remembrance in her hands, which is the jealousy and suspicion offering. And the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings the curse.

19 T hen the religious leader will have her make a promise. He will say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you and if you have not turned away into sin, while under the power of your husband, this bitter water that brings punishment will not hurt you.

Then the priest shall make her take an oath, and say to the woman, If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness with another instead of your husband, then be free from any effect of this water of bitterness which brings the curse.

20 I f you have turned away, while under the power of your husband, and have made yourself unclean by having another man who is not your husband,”

But if you have gone astray and you are defiled, some man having lain with you beside your husband,

21 t hen the religious leader will have the woman make a promise so she will be punished if she has sinned. He will say to the woman, “May the Lord make you a curse among your people. May the Lord make your leg waste away and your stomach grow bigger.

Then the priest shall make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman, The Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people when the Lord makes your thigh fall away and your body swell.

22 T his water that brings a curse will go into your stomach and make it grow bigger and your leg to waste away.” And the woman will say, “Let it be so. Let it be so.”

May this water that brings the curse go into your bowels and make your body swell and your thigh fall away. And the woman shall say, So let it be, so let it be.

23 ‘ Then the religious leader will write these curses in a book. And he will wash them off into the bitter water.

The priest shall then write these curses in a book and shall wash them off into the water of bitterness;

24 H e will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse. The water that brings a curse will go into her and give her pain.

And he shall cause the woman to drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her bitterly.

25 T he religious leader will take the grain gift of jealousy from the woman’s hand. He will wave the grain gift before the Lord and bring it to the altar.

Then the priest shall take the cereal offering of jealousy and suspicion out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the offering before the Lord and offer it upon the altar.

26 T he religious leader will fill his hand with the grain gift, as the part to be remembered. And he will burn it on the altar. Then he will make the woman drink the water.

And the priest shall take a handful of the cereal offering as the memorial portion of it and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.

27 I f she has not been faithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will go into her and give her pain. Her stomach will get larger and her leg will become as dead. A curse will come upon the woman among her people.

And when he has made her drink the water, then if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, the curse water which she drank shall be bitterness and cause her body to swell and her thigh to fall away, and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

28 B ut if the woman has not sinned and is clean, she will be free and able to have children.

But if the woman is not defiled and is clean, then she shall be free and be able to have children.

29 ‘ This is the law of jealousy. If a wife who is under the power of her husband turns away and makes herself unclean,

This is the law of jealousy and suspicion when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband and is defiled,

30 a nd a spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, making him jealous of his wife, then he must make the woman stand before the Lord. And the religious leader will do to her all the rules of this Law.

Or when the spirit of jealousy and suspicion comes upon a man and he is jealous and suspicious of his wife; then shall he set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.

31 T he husband will be free from guilt. But the woman will carry her guilt.’”

The shall be free from iniquity and guilt, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.