1 (iii)Adonaisaid to Moshe,
2 “Order the people of Isra’el to expel from the camp everyone withtzara‘at, everyone with a discharge and whoever is unclean because of touching a corpse.
3 Both male and female you must expel; put them outside the camp; so that they won’t defile their camp, where I live among you.”
4 The people of Isra’el did this and put them outside the camp — the people of Isra’el did whatAdonaihad said to Moshe.
5 Adonaisaid to Moshe,
6 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘When a man or woman commits any kind of sin against another person and thus breaks faith withAdonai, he incurs guilt.
7 He must confess the sin which he has committed; and he must make full restitution for his guilt, add twenty percent and give it to the victim of his sin.
8 But if the person has no relative to whom restitution can be made for the guilt, then what is given in restitution for guilt will belong toAdonai, that is, to thecohen —in addition to the ram of atonement through which atonement is made for him.
9 “‘Every contribution which the people of Isra’el consecrate and present to thecohenwill belong to him.
10 Anything an individual consecrates will be his own [to allocate among thecohanim], but what a person gives to thecohenwill belong to him.’”
(A: iv)
11 Adonaisaid to Moshe,
12 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him;
13 that is, if another man goes to bed with her without her husband’s knowledge, so that she becomes impure secretly, and there is no witness against her, and she was not caught in the act;
14 then, if a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she has become impure — or, for that matter, if the spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she has not become impure —
15 he is to bring his wife to thecohen, along with the offering for her, two quarts of barley flour on which he has not poured olive oil or put frankincense, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a grain offering for remembering, for recalling guilt to mind.
16 Thecohenwill bring her forward and place her beforeAdonai.
17 Thecohenwill put holy water in a clay pot, and then thecohenwill take some of the dust on the floor of the tabernacle and put it in the water.
18 Thecohenwill place the woman beforeAdonai, unbind the woman’s hair and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, the grain offering for jealousy; while thecohenhas in his hand the water of embitterment and cursing.
19 Thecohenwill make her swear by saying to her, “If no man has gone to bed with you, if you have not gone astray to make yourself unclean while under your husband’s authority, then be free from this water of embitterment and cursing.
20 But if you have in fact gone astray while under your husband’s authority and become unclean, because some man other than your husband has gone to bed with you . . .”
21 then thecohenis to make the woman swear with an oath that includes a curse; thecohenwill say to the woman, “. . .mayAdonaimake you an object of cursing and condemnation among your people by making your private parts shrivel and your abdomen swell up!
22 May this water that causes the curse go into your inner parts and make your abdomen swell and your private parts shrivel up!” — and the woman is to respond, “Amen!Amen!”
23 Thecohenis to write these curses on a scroll, wash them off into the water of embitterment
24 and make the woman drink the water of embitterment and cursing — the water of cursing will enter her and become bitter.
25 Then thecohenis to remove the grain offering for jealousy from the woman’s hand, wave the grain offering beforeAdonaiand bring it to the altar.
26 Thecohenis to take a handful of the grain offering as its reminder portion and make it go up in smoke on the altar; afterwards, he is to make the woman drink the water.
27 When he has made her drink the water, then, if she is unclean and has been unfaithful to her husband, the water that causes the curse will enter her and become bitter, so that her abdomen swells and her private parts shrivel up; and the woman will become an object of cursing among her people.
28 But if the woman is not unclean but clean, then she will be innocent and will have children.
29 This is the law for jealousy: when either a wife under her husband’s authority goes astray and becomes unclean,
30 or the spirit of jealousy comes over a husband and he becomes jealous of his wife, then he is to place the woman beforeAdonai, and thecohenis to deal with her in accordance with all of this law.
31 The husband will be clear of guilt, but the wife will bear the consequences of her guilt.’”