# Numbers 5

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Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2. Command the sons of Israel to send out from the camp every leper, every one with a discharge, and every one defiled by a corpse.
3. Send both male and female away from the camp; drive them outside the camp, so that they do not defile their camps, where I dwell among them.
4. The sons of Israel did so and sent them outside the camp, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses, so the sons of Israel did.
5. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
6. Speak to the Israelites: When a man or woman commits any sin that people commit, trespassing against Yahweh, that soul is guilty.
7. They shall confess their sin that they committed, and he shall restore the full amount of his guilt, add its fifth to it, and give it to the one against whom he has become guilty.
8. But if the man has no kinsman to restore the guilt to, then the guilt restored goes to Yahweh for the priest, besides the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.
9. Every contribution from all the holy things of the children of Israel that they present to the priest belongs to him.
10. A man's sacred things shall belong to him; whatever a man gives to the priest shall belong to him.
11. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
12. Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If any man's wife goes astray and commits a trespass against him,
13. And a man has sexual intercourse with her, but it stays hidden from her husband's eyes, remains concealed, she becomes defiled, there is no witness against her, and she is not caught.
14. and a spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he grows jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or a spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he grows jealous of his wife and she is not defiled.
15. The man shall bring his wife to the priest, along with her offering for her—a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He must pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, because it is a jealousy offering, a memorial offering that recalls iniquity.
16. The priest brings her near and sets her before Yahweh.
17. The priest takes holy water in an earthen vessel, takes some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and puts it into the water.
18. The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, uncover her head, and put the memorial offering—the jealousy offering—on her hands, and the bitter cursing waters shall be in the priest's hand.
19. The priest adjured her and said to the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness under your husband, you are clean from these waters of bitterness that curse."
20. But if you have gone aside while under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband.
21. The priest shall cause the woman to swear the oath of the curse and say to her, "May Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh makes your thigh fall and your belly swell."
22. These cursing waters will enter your bowels to swell the belly and drop the thigh, and the woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”
23. And the priest shall write these curses in a book and blot them out into the bitter water.
24. He shall make the woman drink the bitter, cursing waters, and the cursing waters shall enter her and become bitter.
25. The priest shall take the offering of jealousy from the woman's hand, wave the offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.
26. The priest shall take a handful from the offering—its memorial—and burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.
27. When he makes her drink the waters, if she has become defiled and committed treachery against her husband, the curse-bringing waters enter her and turn bitter, her belly swells and her thigh falls away, and the woman becomes a curse among her people.
28. But if the woman has not become unclean and she is pure, she will be innocent and will bear offspring.
29. This is the law of jealousy, when a wife goes astray under her husband and becomes defiled.
30. or if a spirit of jealousy comes upon a man and he becomes jealous over his wife, then he shall bring the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall carry out all this law on her.
31. The man shall be innocent of iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.

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[Numbers 4](https://www.lumin.faith/read/numbers/4.md)
[Numbers 6](https://www.lumin.faith/read/numbers/6.md)

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