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Numbers 5:1 (show verse)
The LORD told Moses,
Numbers 5:2 (show verse)
"Command the Israelis to send outside the encampment every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is ritually defiled by contact with a corpse.
Church of israel » Members of » Separated from, while unclean
The Dead » Defiled » Camp » Removed
Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Having an issue, &c
Disease » Remedies » Quarantine
Disease » Instances of » Of the sexual organs
Leprosy » Law concerning
Leprosy » Isolation of lepers
Leprosy » Those afflicted with » Separated from intercourse with others
Sanitation » Quarantine
The Dead » Defiled » Camp » Removed
Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Having an issue, &c
Disease » Remedies » Quarantine
Disease » Instances of » Of the sexual organs
Leprosy » Law concerning
Leprosy » Isolation of lepers
Leprosy » Those afflicted with » Separated from intercourse with others
Sanitation » Quarantine
Numbers 5:3 (show verse)
Whether male or female, send them outside the camp so that they won't defile their camp, because I live among them."
Numbers 5:4 (show verse)
So the Israelis sent them outside the camp. The Israelis did just what the LORD had told Moses.
Numbers 5:5 (show verse)
The LORD told Moses,
Numbers 5:6 (show verse)
"Instruct the Israelis that whenever a man or woman does something contained in the list of the sins of man, thereby acting treacherously against the LORD, then that person stands guilty.
Numbers 5:7 (show verse)
He is to confess the sin that he had committed, pay its full compensation, add one fifth to it, and give the compensation to whomever he offended.
Numbers 5:8 (show verse)
But if the person has no related redeemer to whom compensation may be made, the payment is to be brought to the LORD and given to the priest, in addition to a ram for atonement with which he is to be atoned.
Numbers 5:9 (show verse)
Every offering from all the most sacred things of the Israelis that they bring to the priest is to belong to him.
Numbers 5:10 (show verse)
Furthermore, everyone's sacred things belong to him, as well as whatever a person gives to the priest."
Numbers 5:11 (show verse)
Then the LORD told Moses,
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Numbers 5:12 (show verse)
"Instruct the Israelis what to do if a man's wife turns astray so that she unfaithfully acts against him,
Numbers 5:13 (show verse)
a man has sexual relations with her and she conceals it from her husband, keeping it secret although she has defiled herself with there being no witnesses against her, but she was caught anyway.
Numbers 5:14 (show verse)
If an attitude of jealousy overcomes him so that he becomes jealous at his wife when she is defiled, or if an attitude of jealousy overcomes him and he becomes jealous of his wife even though she isn't defiled,
Numbers 5:15 (show verse)
then that man is to bring his wife to the priest along with an offering for her consisting of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil or set frankincense over it, because it's to be a jealousy offering, a memorial offering that will serve as a reminder of iniquity.
Agriculture » Products of » Barley
Barley » Used in offerings
Frankincense » In making an offering of memorial
Grain » Barley
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Measure » An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half
Meat offerings » Consisted of » Barley meal
Meat offerings » Of jealousy, without oil or incense
Offerings » Different kinds of » Jealousy
Priest » The function he served was superior to that of other priests » Judicial
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
priests » Services of » Deciding in cases of jealousy
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Barley » Used in offerings
Frankincense » In making an offering of memorial
Grain » Barley
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Measure » An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half
Meat offerings » Consisted of » Barley meal
Meat offerings » Of jealousy, without oil or incense
Offerings » Different kinds of » Jealousy
Priest » The function he served was superior to that of other priests » Judicial
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
priests » Services of » Deciding in cases of jealousy
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Numbers 5:16 (show verse)
Then the priest is to bring it and make her stand in the LORD's presence.
Numbers 5:17 (show verse)
The priest is to put some holy water into an earthen vessel, take some dust from the floor of the tent, and put it into the water.
Numbers 5:18 (show verse)
The priest is to have the woman stand in the LORD's presence, uncover her head, and put the grain offering as a memorial, a reminder of jealousy, into her hands. The priest is also to have in his hand the contaminated water that carries a curse.
Numbers 5:19 (show verse)
"The priest is to administer this oath to the woman: "If indeed another man didn't have sexual relations with you and you didn't become unfaithful to your husband, then may you be free from these waters that bring a curse.
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Oaths » Permitted in bearing witness
Oaths » Used for » Deciding controversies in courts of law
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Witness » Qualified by oath
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Oaths » Permitted in bearing witness
Oaths » Used for » Deciding controversies in courts of law
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Witness » Qualified by oath
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Numbers 5:20 (show verse)
But if you have become unfaithful to your husband and have become defiled because a man who isn't your husband has had sexual relations with you"'
Numbers 5:21 (show verse)
then the priest is to have the woman commit to an oath by saying to the woman, "May the LORD make you a curse and a curse among your people. When the LORD makes your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Witness » Qualified by oath
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Witness » Qualified by oath
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Numbers 5:22 (show verse)
and this water that brings a curse enters your abdomen, making it swell and your thigh waste away.' "Then the woman is to say "Amen.'
Amen » A word used to reenforce a statement
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Numbers 5:23 (show verse)
"Then the priest is to write all of these words in a document and wipe it off with the contaminated water.
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Books » Erasures in, alluded to
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Books » Erasures in, alluded to
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Numbers 5:24 (show verse)
The woman is to drink the bitter water that brings a curse and the water that brings a curse is to be considered contaminated.
Numbers 5:25 (show verse)
The priest is to take the offering of jealousy from the woman's hand, wave the offering in the LORD's presence, and have her approach the altar.
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Dedication » Personal of offerings » Wave
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Offerings » Wave
Offerings » Wave » Ordinances concerning
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wave-offering » Consisted of » The jealousy offering
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Dedication » Personal of offerings » Wave
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Offerings » Wave
Offerings » Wave » Ordinances concerning
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wave-offering » Consisted of » The jealousy offering
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Numbers 5:26 (show verse)
The priest is to take a handful of grain from the memorial and offer a sacrifice on the altar, after which he is to have the woman drink the water.
Numbers 5:27 (show verse)
When he has had her drink the water, if she was defiled and had acted unfaithfully toward her husband, then the contaminated water that brings a curse will enter her and infect her, causing her abdomen to swell and her thigh to waste away. Then she is to be a cursed woman among her people.
Numbers 5:28 (show verse)
But if the woman isn't defiled, then she is to be freed and will be able to bear children.
Numbers 5:29 (show verse)
This is the law in cases of jealousy when a woman defiles herself while under her husband's authority:
Numbers 5:30 (show verse)
When a man becomes under the control of an attitude of jealousy regarding his wife, he is to present her to the Lord, and the priest is to apply this entire statute to her.
Numbers 5:31 (show verse)
The husband will be free from guilt, but the wife is to bear the punishment of her iniquity."