Numbers Chapter 5

• Numbers 5:1
  Numbers.
• Numbers 5:2
  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
• Numbers 5:3
  “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse.
• Numbers 5:4
  You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
• Numbers 5:5
  The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as the LORD spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.
• Numbers 5:6
  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
• Numbers 5:7
  “Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against the LORD, and that soul is guilty,
• Numbers 5:8
  then he shall confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to h...
• Numbers 5:9
  But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to the LORD shall be the priest’s...
• Numbers 5:10
  Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.
• Numbers 5:11
  Every man’s holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.’”
• Numbers 5:12
  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
• Numbers 5:13
  “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,
• Numbers 5:14
  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 ag...
• Numbers 5:15
  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 jealou...
• Numbers 5:16
  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on i...
• Numbers 5:17
  The priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD.
• Numbers 5:18
  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 in...
• Numbers 5:19
  The priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, whi...
• Numbers 5:20
  The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being...
• Numbers 5:21
  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—”
• Numbers 5:22
  then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May the LORD make you a curse and an oa...
• Numbers 5:23
  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.”
• Numbers 5:24
  “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
• Numbers 5:25
  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 bitte...
• Numbers 5:26
  The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before the LORD, and bring it to the alt...
• Numbers 5:27
  The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the ...
• Numbers 5:28
  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 ca...
• Numbers 5:29
  If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.
• Numbers 5:30
  “‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,
• Numbers 5:31
  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 execut...
• Numbers 5:32
  The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”