Chapter 5
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And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: If a man, a man, if his wife strays and commits a transgression against him,
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and a man lay with her, a lying of seed, and it was hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she was hidden, and she became ritually impure, and there is no witness against her, and he was not caught.
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and a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife and she has become ritually impure, or a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife and she has not become ritually impure.
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And the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring his offering for her: a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He shall not pour oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a jealousy offering, a memorial offering bringing iniquity to remembrance.
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And the priest shall bring her near and stand her before the LORD.
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And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the waters.
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And the priest shall make the woman stand before the LORD, and he shall loose the woman's hair, and he shall place the memorial offering, the jealousy offering, on her palms—it is—and the bitter waters, the cursing waters, shall be in the hand of the priest.
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And the priest shall cause her to swear and say to the woman, "If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray as an unclean one under your husband, you are clean from the water of bitterness, the cursing ones."
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And if you have gone astray against your husband and if you have become ritually impure and a man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you—
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And the priest will cause the woman to swear the oath of cursing, and the priest will say to the woman, "May the LORD make you an oath and a curse among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your belly swell."
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And may these cursing waters come into your bowels to cause the belly to swell and the thigh to fall away, and the woman shall say, "Amen, amen."
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And the priest shall write these curses in a book and wipe them off into the bitter waters.
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And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water, the cursing water, and the cursing water shall enter into her and make bitter.
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And the priest shall take from the woman's hand the jealousy offering, and he shall wave the offering before the LORD, and he shall offer it to the altar.
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And the priest shall take a handful from the grain offering of its memorial portion and shall burn it on the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman drink the water.
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And he makes her drink the waters, and it happens if she became ritually impure and acted treacherously, a trespass against her husband, and the cursing waters come into her and make bitter, and her belly swells and her thigh falls, and the woman becomes an oath in the midst of her people.
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And if the woman has not become ritually impure and she is ritually pure, she will be acquitted and she will bear seed.
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This is the Torah of jealousy, which is for a woman who goes astray under her husband and becomes ritually impure.
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or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, and he stands the woman before the LORD, and the priest does to her all this Torah.
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And the man shall be cleared of iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.