Numbers 55NumbersPreparing to leave SinaiTargum Onkelos Etheridge

Targum Onkelos EtheridgeBerean Standard Bible

1. Cleansing the Camps

   (Leviticus 13:1–46)

2. 1ENGOKEAnd the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying:BSBBSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
3. 2ENGOKECommand the sons of Israel to send away from the camp everyone who is leprous, and everyone who hath an issue, and everyone who is defiled with the pollution of the life of man:BSBBSB: “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
4. 3ENGOKEFrom male to female you, shall send them away, that they defile not their camps; for My Shekinah dwelleth among you.BSBBSB: You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
5. 4ENGOKEAnd the sons of Israel did so; as the Lord spake with Mosheh, so did the sons of Israel.BSBBSB: So the Israelites did this, sending such people outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.

6. Confession and Restitution

   (Luke 19:1–10)

7. 5ENGOKEAnd the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying:BSBBSB: And the LORD said to Moses,
8. 6ENGOKEWhen a man or a woman hath committed any of the sins of mankind to prevaricate prevarication before the Lord, and that man hath become guilty;BSBBSB: “Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty
9. 7ENGOKEThey shall make confession of the sin which they have committed, and restore the principal of (the property of) the trespass, and add a fifth part thereto, and give to him against whom the sin was committed;BSBBSB: and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its value, and give all this to the one he has wronged.
10. 8ENGOKEBut if the man (hath deceased, or) hath no kinsman unto whom the trespass should be returned, let the trespass be restored before the Lord unto the priest, besides the ram of atonement which shall be offered to atone for him.BSBBSB: But if the man has no relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest along with the ram of atonement, by which the atonement is made for him.
11. 9ENGOKEAnd all separated things of all the consecrations of the sons of Israel which are offered by the priest are his.BSBBSB: Every sacred contribution the Israelites bring to the priest shall belong to him.
12. 10ENGOKEAnd the consecrated tenths of every man shall be his, and whatsoever a man giveth unto the priest shall be his.BSBBSB: Each man’s sacred gifts are his own, but whatever he gives to the priest will belong to the priest.”

13. The Adultery Test

14. 11ENGOKEAnd the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying:BSBBSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
15. 12ENGOKESpeak with the sons of Israel, and say to them: If a man’s wife go astray and prevaricate against him prevarication,BSBBSB: “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
16. 13ENGOKEAnd a man lie with her, and it be hidden from her husband’s eyes, and she be contaminated, and there be no witness against her, and she be not convicted (or apprehended);BSBBSB: by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),
17. 14ENGOKEBut the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife that she hath been defiled; or the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he become jealous of his wife, though she be not defiled;BSBBSB: and if a feeling of jealousy comes over her husband and he suspects his wife who has defiled herself—or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he suspects her even though she has not defiled herself—
18. 15ENGOKEThen shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and bring her offering for her, a tenth part of three seins of barley flour; he shall pour no oil thereon, nor put frankincense upon it, because it is a mincha of jealousy, a mincha of remembrance, bringing sins to remembrance.BSBBSB: then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.
19. 16ENGOKEAnd the priest shall bring her near, and make her stand before the Lord.BSBBSB: The priest is to bring the wife forward and have her stand before the LORD.
20. 17ENGOKEAnd the priest shall take water from the laver in an earthen vessel. And the priest shall take from the dust which is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water.BSBBSB: Then he is to take some holy water in a clay jar and put some of the dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.
21. 18ENGOKEAnd the priest shall make the woman stand before the Lord, and shall uncover the woman’s head, and put the mincha of remembrance, the mincha of jealousy, upon her hands; and in the priest’s hand shall be the bitter waters of cursing.BSBBSB: After the priest has the woman stand before the LORD, he is to let down her hair and place in her hands the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering for jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse.
22. 19ENGOKEAnd the priest shall adjure her, and say to the woman: If no man hath lain with thee, and if thou bast not gone astray to uncleanness (with another) instead of thy husband, be thou unhurt (zakaah, innocent, clean) from these bitter waters of cursing.BSBBSB: And he is to put the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune to this bitter water that brings a curse.
23. 20ENGOKEBut if thou hast gone astray (to another) instead of thy husband, and art defiled; and another man hath lain with thee, besides thy husband,BSBBSB: But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—
24. 21ENGOKEthe priest shall adjure the woman by the oath of the curse; and the priest shall say to the woman: The Lord set thee for a curse and an execration in the midst of thy people, by the Lord making thy thigh to be corrupt, and thy bowels to swell.BSBBSB: and the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.
25. 22ENGOKEAnd these waters of cursing shall enter thy inside, to make thy bowels to swell, and thy thigh to become corrupt. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen!BSBBSB: May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
26. 23ENGOKEAnd the priest shall write these maledictions upon a book, and shall wash them out with the bitter waters.BSBBSB: And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
27. 24ENGOKEAnd he shall make the woman to drink the bitter waters of cursing; and the waters of the curse shall enter into her unto bitterness.BSBBSB: He is to have the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and may cause her bitter suffering.
28. 25ENGOKEAnd the priest shall take from the woman’s hand the mincha of jealousy; and wave the mincha before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar.BSBBSB: The priest shall take from her hand the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.
29. 26ENGOKEAnd the priest shall take with a full hand from the mincha the memorial of it, and burn it upon the altar; and afterward the woman shall drink the water.BSBBSB: Then the priest is to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar; after that he is to have the woman drink the water.
30. 27ENGOKEAnd when he hath made her drink the water, it shall be that if she hath been defiled and hath wrought perverseness with her husband, the waters of the execration will enter into her with bitterness, and her bowels will swell, and her thigh become corrupt: and the woman shall be for an execration among her people.BSBBSB: When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.
31. 28ENGOKEBut if the woman hath not been defiled, but is innocent, they shall enter harmlessly, and she shall conceive with conception.BSBBSB: But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.
32. 29ENGOKEThis is the law of jealousy, when a woman hath gone astray from her husband,BSBBSB: This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,
33. 30ENGOKEor when the spirit of jealousy passeth upon a man, and he become jealous of his wife. He shall make the wife stand before the Lord; and the priest shall do for him (according to) all this law.BSBBSB: or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he suspects his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest is to apply to her this entire law.
34. 31ENGOKEAnd the man shall be innocent from guilt, but the woman shall bear her sin.BSBBSB: The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”

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