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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Numbers 5 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/numbers/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Numbers 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/4.htm" title="Numbers 4">◄</a> Numbers 5 <a href="../numbers/6.htm" title="Numbers 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/numbers/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Purity of the Camp</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew word for defiling skin disease, traditionally translated ''leprosy,'' was used for various diseases affecting the skin.">a</a></sup></span> or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the <span class="name">Lord</span> had instructed Moses.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Restitution for Wrongs</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Say to the Israelites: ‘Any man or woman who wrongs another in any way <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or woman who commits any wrong common to mankind">b</a></sup></span> and so is unfaithful to the <span class="name">Lord</span> is guilty <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and must confess the sin they have committed. They must make full restitution for the wrong they have done, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the person they have wronged. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But if that person has no close relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the <span class="name">Lord</span> and must be given to the priest, along with the ram with which atonement is made for the wrongdoer. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Sacred things belong to their owners, but what they give to the priest will belong to the priest.’ ”</p> <p class="sectionhead">The Test for an Unfaithful Wife</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act), <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, probably about 3 1/2 pounds or about 1.6 kilograms">c</a></sup></span> of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“ ‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>After the priest has had the woman stand before the <span class="name">Lord</span>, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the <span class="name">Lord</span> cause you to become a curse <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, may he cause your name to be used in cursing (see Jer. 29:22); or, may others see that you are cursed; similarly in verse 27.">d</a></sup></span> among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”</p><p class="reg">“ ‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“ ‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the <span class="name">Lord</span> and bring it to the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or representative">e</a></sup></span> offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“ ‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the <span class="name">Lord</span> and is to apply this entire law to her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’ ”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Hebrew word for <i>defiling skin disease</i>, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>woman who commits any wrong common to mankind</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, probably about 3 1/2 pounds or about 1.6 kilograms</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, may he cause your name to be used in cursing (see Jer. 29:22); or, may others see that you are cursed; similarly in verse 27.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>representative</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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