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you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.</span></p> <h3> Confession and Restitution</span></h3><p><span class="text Num-5-5"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit in unfaithfulness against the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and that person is guilty, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>then he shall confess the sin which he has committed. He shall make restitution for his trespass in full, plus one-fifth of it, and give <i>it</i> to the one he has wronged. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But if the man has no <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>relative to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for the wrong <i>must go</i> to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> for the priest, in addition to the ram of the atonement with which atonement is made for him. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Every offering<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span> of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And every man’s <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest shall be his.’ ”</span></p> <h3> Concerning Unfaithful Wives</span></h3><p><span class="text Num-5-11"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and it is concealed that she has defiled herself, and <i>there was</i> no witness against her, nor was she caught— </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, although she has not defiled herself— </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. He shall bring the offering required for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, because it <i>is</i> a grain offering of jealousy, an offering for remembering, for bringing iniquity to remembrance.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>‘And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put <i>it</i> into the water. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then the priest shall stand the woman before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering for remembering in her hands, which <i>is</i> the grain offering of jealousy. And the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the priest shall put her under oath, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness <i>while</i> under your husband’s <i>authority,</i> be free from this bitter water that brings a curse. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But if you have gone astray <i>while</i> under your husband’s <i>authority,</i> and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you”— </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>then the priest shall put the woman under the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman—“the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> makes your thigh <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>rot and your belly swell; </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and may this water that causes the curse go into your stomach, and make <i>your</i> belly swell and <i>your</i> thigh rot.”</span></p><p><span class="text Num-5-22">‘Then the woman shall say, “Amen, so be it.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>‘Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall scrape <i>them</i> off into the bitter water. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her <i>to become</i> bitter. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, shall wave the offering before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and bring it to the altar; </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and the priest shall take a handful of the offering, as its memorial portion, burn <i>it</i> on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>When he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, that the water that brings a curse will enter her <i>and become</i> bitter, and her belly will swell, her thigh will rot, and the woman will become a curse among her people. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be free and may conceive children.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>‘This <i>is</i> the law of jealousy, when a wife, <i>while</i> under her husband’s <i>authority,</i> goes astray and defiles herself, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife; then he shall stand the woman before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and the priest shall execute all this law upon her. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then the man shall be free from <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>iniquity, but that woman shall bear her <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>guilt.’ ”</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-3795a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Numbers 5:2">Numbers 5:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>by contact with</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-3801b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Numbers 5:8">Numbers 5:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>redeemer,</i> Heb. <i>goel</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-3802c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Numbers 5:9">Numbers 5:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>heave offering</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-3803d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Numbers 5:10">Numbers 5:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>consecrated</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-3814e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Numbers 5:21">Numbers 5:21</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>fall away</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-3824f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Numbers 5:31">Numbers 5:31</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>guilt</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-3824g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Numbers 5:31">Numbers 5:31</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>iniquity</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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