Bemiḏbar (Numbers) 5

Num 5:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 5:2 “Command the children of Yisra’ĕl to send out of the camp every
leper, and everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled for a
being.
Num 5:3 “Send out both male and female, send them outside the camp, so
that they do not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.”
Num 5:4 And the children of Yisra’ĕl did so, to send them outside the camp.
As יהוה had spoken to Mosheh, so the children of Yisra’ĕl did.
Num 5:5 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 5:6 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘When a man or woman
commits any sin that men commit in trespass against יהוה, and that being is
guilty,
Num 5:7 then they shall confess their sin which they have done. And he shall
restore his guilt in its principal, plus one-fifth of it, and give it to whom he
has been guilty.
Num 5:8 ‘But if the man has no relative to restore the guilt to, the guilt which
is restored goes to יהוה, for the priest, in addition to the ram of the atonement
with which atonement is made for him.
Num 5:9 ‘And every contribution of all the set-apart gifts of the children of
Yisra’ĕl, which they bring to the priest, becomes his.
Num 5:10 ‘And every man’s set-apart gifts becomes his, whatever any man
gives the priest becomes his.’ ”
Num 5:11 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Num 5:12 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When any
man’s wife turns aside and has committed a trespass against him,
Num 5:13 and a man has intercourse with her, and it is hidden from the eyes
of her husband, and it is concealed that she has defiled herself, and there was
no witness against her, nor was she caught,
Num 5:14 and a spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous
of his wife who has defiled herself, or a spirit of jealousy comes upon him
and he becomes jealous of his wife although she has not defiled herself,
Num 5:15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. And he shall bring
the offering for her, one-tenth of an ĕphah of barley flour. He is not to pour
oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of jealousy, an
offering for remembering, for bringing crookedness to remembrance.
Num 5:16 ‘And the priest shall bring her near, and shall make her stand
.יהוה before
Num 5:17 ‘And the priest shall take set-apart water in an earthen vessel, and
take some of the dust that is on the floor of the Dwelling Place and put it into
the water.
Num 5:18 ‘And the priest shall make the woman stand before יהוה, and shall
uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering for remembering in her
hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy, while the priest holds in his
hand the bitter water that brings a curse.
Num 5:19 ‘And the priest shall make her swear, and say to the woman, “If
no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness
under your husband’s authority, be free from this bitter water that brings a
curse.
Num 5:20 “But if you have turned aside under your husband’s authority, and
if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain
with you” –
Num 5:21 then the priest shall make the woman swear with the oath of the
curse, and he shall say to the woman – “ יהוה make you a curse and an oath
among your people, when יהוה makes your thigh waste away and your belly
swell,
Num 5:22 and this water that causes the curse shall go into your inward
parts, and make your belly swell and your thigh waste away.” And the
woman shall say, “Amĕn, amĕn.”
Num 5:23 ‘And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wipe
them off into the bitter water,
Num 5:24 and shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings the
curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her to become bitter.
Num 5:25 ‘And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the
woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before יהוה, and bring it to the
altar.
Num 5:26 ‘And the priest shall take a hand filled with the offering, as its
remembrance offering, and burn it on the altar, and afterward make the
woman drink the water.
Num 5:27 ‘And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she
has defiled herself and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the
water that brings the curse shall enter her and become bitter, and her belly
shall swell, and her thigh shall waste away, and the woman shall become a
curse among her people.
Num 5:28 ‘But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she
shall be clear and shall conceive children.
Num 5:29 ‘This is the Torah of jealousy, when a wife turns aside under her
husband’s authority and defiles herself,
Num 5:30 or when a spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes
jealous of his wife. Then he shall make the woman stand before יהוה, and the
priest shall do to her all this Torah.
Num 5:31 ‘And the man shall be clear from crookedness, but the woman
bear her crookedness.’ ”