These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Numbers 5
Tanakh 31 verses
- 1 And spoke unto , saying:
- 2 Command the children of , that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is unclean by the dead;
- 3 both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camp, in the midst whereof I dwell.’
- 4 And the children of did so, and put them out without the camp; as spoke unto , so did the children of .
- 5 And spoke unto , saying:
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Speak unto the children of : When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against , and that be guilty;
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- 7 then they shall confess their sin which they have done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him in respect of whom he hath been guilty.
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But if the man have no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made shall be Yahweh’S, even the priest’s; besides the ram of the , whereby shall be made for him.
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- 9 And every heave- of all the things of the children of , which they present unto the , shall be his.
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And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the , it shall be his.
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- 11 And spoke unto , saying:
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Speak unto the children of , and say unto them: If any man’s wife go aside, and act unfaithfully against him,
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and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, she being defiled secretly, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken in the act;
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and the of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled; or if the of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled;
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then shall the man bring his wife unto the , and shall bring her 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 a meal- of jealousy, a meal- of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
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And the shall bring her near, and set her before .
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And the shall take water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the the shall take, and put it into the water.
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- 18 And the shall set the woman before , and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal- of memorial in her hands, which is the meal- of jealousy; and the shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that causeth the .
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And the shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman: ‘If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the ;
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but if thou hast gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband—
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then the shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the shall say unto the woman— make thee a and an oath among thy people, when doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy belly to swell;
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- 22 and this water that causeth the shall go into thy bowels, and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to fall away’; and the woman shall say: ‘, .’
- 23 And the shall write these curses in a scroll, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.
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And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causeth the ; and the water that causeth the shall enter into her and become bitter.
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And the shall take the meal- of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal- before , and bring it unto the .
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And the shall take a handful of the meal-, as the memorial-part thereof, and make it smoke upon the , and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
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- 27 And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have acted unfaithfully against her husband, that the water that causeth the shall enter into her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away; and the woman shall be a among her people.
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And if the woman be not defiled, but be ; then she shall be cleared, and shall conceive seed.
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- 29 This is the of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;
- 30 or when the of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he be jealous over his wife; then shall he set the woman before , and the shall execute upon her all this .
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And the man shall be clear from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.
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