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Primary Verses:
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Numbers 5:11-31
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"And YHVH spake unto Moses,
saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass
against him, And a man lie with her carnally, and it be
hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and
she be defiled, and there be no witness against her,
neither she be taken with the manner; And the spirit of
jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife,
and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come
upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not
defiled: Then shall the man bring his wife unto the
priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the
tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no
oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an
offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing
iniquity to remembrance. And the priest shall bring her
near, and set her before YHVH: And the priest shall
take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust
that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall
take, and put it into the water: And the priest shall
set the woman before YHVH, and uncover the woman's head,
and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is
the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his
hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: And the
priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the
woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast
not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of
thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that
causeth the curse: But if thou hast gone aside to
another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled,
and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of
cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, YHVH
make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when
YHVH doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to
swell; And this
water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels,
to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot:
And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. And the priest
shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot
them out with the bitter water: And he shall cause the
woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse:
and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into
her, and become bitter. Then the priest shall take the
jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall
wave the offering before YHVH, and offer it upon the
altar: And the priest shall take an handful of the
offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon
the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink
the water. And when he hath made her to drink the
water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be
defiled, and have done trespass against her husband,
that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into
her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and
her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse
among her people. And if the woman be not defiled, but
be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive
seed. This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth
aside to another instead of her husband, and is
defiled; Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon
him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the
woman before YHVH, and the priest shall execute upon her
all this law. Then shall the man be guiltless from
iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity."
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