1 GLT And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 GLT “Command the sons of Israel and they shall send away from the camp every one with an infectious skin disease and every one who flows and every one unclean by a dead person. BSB BSB: “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.
3 GLT From male up to female you shall send, to the outside of the camp you shall send them. And they shall not defile their camp, because I am dwelling in the midst of them.” BSB BSB: 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.”
4 GLT And the sons of Israel did so, and they sent them to the outside of the camp. Thus the sons of Israel did just as Yahweh had spoken to Moses. BSB BSB: So the Israelites did this, sending such people outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.
5 GLT And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, BSB BSB: And the LORD said to Moses,
6 GLT “Speak to the sons of Israel:‘When a man or woman does from any of the sins of the human to act unfaithfully in unfaithfulness against Yahweh, then that person has done wrong. BSB BSB: “Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty
7 GLT And they shall confess their sin that they did, and he shall return his price of wrongdoing by its head and he shall add its fifth in addition to it, and he shall give to whom he has done wrong to. BSB BSB: 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.
8 GLT And if there is not a redeemer for the man to return the price of wrongdoing to him, the price of wrongdoing will be returned to Yahweh, to the priest, apart from the ram of the atonement with which he shall make atonement for him. BSB BSB: 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.
9 GLT And every contribution of all the holy things of the sons of Israel that they offer to the priest, it shall belong to him. BSB BSB: Every sacred contribution the Israelites bring to the priest shall belong to him.
10 GLT And a man, his holy things shall belong to him; what a man gives to the priest shall belong to him.’” BSB BSB: Each man’s sacred gifts are his own, but whatever he gives to the priest will belong to the priest.”
11 GLT And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
12 GLT “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them,‘Man by man, if his wife turns aside and acts unfaithfully against him in unfaithfulness, BSB BSB: “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
13 GLT and a man lies the lying of seed with her and it is concealed from the eyes of her husband, and it is hidden, and she herself is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she herself has not been caught, BSB BSB: 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),
14 GLT and a spirit of jealousy passes over upon him and he is jealous of his wife and she herself is defiled, or a spirit of jealousy comes over upon him and he is jealous of his wife but she herself is not defiled; BSB BSB: 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—
15 GLT then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. And he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth of the ephah of the flour of barley. He shall not pour oil upon it, and he shall not put frankincense upon it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, one that causes iniquity to be remembered. BSB BSB: 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.
16 GLT And the priest shall bring her near, and he shall stand her before the face of Yahweh. BSB BSB: The priest is to bring the wife forward and have her stand before the LORD.
17 GLT And the priest shall take the holy water in the vessel of clay, and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the dwelling, and he shall put it into the water. BSB BSB: 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.
18 GLT And the priest shall stand the woman before the face of Yahweh, and he shall unbind the head of the woman, and he shall put upon her palm the grain offering of remembrance. It is the grain offering of jealousy. And in the hand of the priest shall be the water of bitterness that brings a curse. BSB BSB: 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.
19 GLT And the priest shall make her swear, and he shall say to the woman,“If a man has not lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness under your husband, you will be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse. BSB BSB: 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.
20 GLT But if you have turned aside under your husband, and if you are defiled and a man apart from your husband has given his lying with you,” BSB BSB: 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’—
21 GLT (and the priest shall make the woman swear with an oath of the curse). And the priest shall say to the woman,“Yahweh will make you into a curse and into an oath in the midst of your people when Yahweh makes your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell. BSB BSB: 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.
22 GLT And this water that brings a curse will enter in your inward parts to cause swelling of the abdomen and to cause falling away of your thigh.” And the woman shall say,“Truly, truly.” BSB BSB: 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.’
23 GLT And the priest shall write these curses in the book, and he shall wipe it off into the water of bitterness. BSB BSB: And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
24 GLT And he shall cause the woman to drink the water of bitterness that brings a curse, and the water that brings a curse of bitterness will enter in her. BSB BSB: 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.
25 GLT And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the hand of the woman, and he shall wave the grain offering before the face of Yahweh, and he shall bring it near to the altar. BSB BSB: The priest shall take from her hand the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.
26 GLT And the priest shall grasp from the grain offering its memorial portion and he shall burn it up at the altar. And after he shall make the woman drink the water. BSB BSB: 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.
27 GLT And he shall make her drink the water. And it will be that if she is defiled and has acted unfaithfully in unfaithfulness with her husband, then the water that brings a curse of bitterness will enter in her, and her abdomen will swell, and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse in the midst of her people. BSB BSB: 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.
28 GLT And if the woman is not defiled, then she herself is clean, and she will be free, and she will be sown with seed. BSB BSB: But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.
29 GLT This is the law of jealousy when a woman turns aside under her husband and is defiled, BSB BSB: This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,
30 GLT or a man, when a spirit of jealousy passes over upon him and he is jealous of his wife, and he shall stand the woman before the face of Yahweh, and the priest shall do all this law to her. BSB BSB: 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.
31 GLT And the man will be free from iniquity, and this woman will carry her iniquity.’” BSB BSB: The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”
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