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Numbers
5:11 And
the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12 Speak
unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s
wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13 And
a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her
husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and
there be
no
witness against her, neither she be taken
with the manner;
14 And
the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his
wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come
upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not
defiled: 15 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 pour no oil upon it, nor put
frankincense thereon; for it
is
an
offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing
iniquity to remembrance. 16 And
the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
17 And
the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of
the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest
shall take, and put
it
into
the water: 18 And
the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the
woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands,
which
is
the
jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the
bitter water that causeth the curse: 19 And
the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman,
If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside
to uncleanness
with another
instead
of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that
causeth the curse: 20 But
if thou hast gone aside
to another
instead
of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain
with thee beside thine husband: 21 Then
the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and
the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse
and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh
to rot, and thy belly to swell; 22 And
this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to
make
thy
belly
to swell, and
thy
thigh
to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. 23 And
the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall
blot
them
out
with the bitter water: 24 And
he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth
the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter
into her,
and become
bitter.
25 Then
the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s
hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it
upon the altar: 26 And
the priest shall take an handful of the offering,
even
the
memorial thereof, and burn
it
upon
the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the
water. 27 And
when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to
pass,
that,
if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband,
that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her,
and become
bitter,
and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the
woman shall be a curse among her people. 28 And
if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be
free, and shall conceive seed. 29 This
is
the
law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside
to another
instead
of her husband, and is defiled; 30 Or
when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous
over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the
priest shall execute upon her all this law. 31 Then
shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall
bear her iniquity.
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