Numbers 5 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
Yahweh told Moses,
"Tell the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a anyone with a and anyone who has become by contact with a dead body.
Send them outside the camp — both men and women — so they don't contaminate the camp where I you."
The Israelites did exactly that — they sent them outside the camp, just as Yahweh had told Moses.
Yahweh told Moses,
"Tell the Israelites: when a man or woman — breaking with in the process — that
They must what they've done, then pay back the full amount they owe plus an additional giving it to the person they wronged.
But if the wronged person has no who can receive the payment, the restitution goes to Yahweh — specifically to the priest — along with a ram for the that covers the guilty person's offense.
Every that the Israelites bring to the priest belongs to that priest.
Whatever anyone sets apart as dedicated — it's theirs to give, but once they give it to the priest, it belongs to the priest."
Yahweh told Moses,
"Tell the Israelites: suppose a man's wife and is to —
another man with but it's hidden from husband — she has secretly made herself and there are no witnesses against since she wasn't caught in the act —
and a of comes over her husband, making him suspicious of his wife — whether she actually made herself contaminated or not —
then the husband must his wife to the priest. He must also a on her behalf: two quarts of He must not pour olive oil on it or add frankincense, because this is a jealousy — a to the to
The priest will bring her forward and have her stand before Yahweh.
The priest will take in a clay jar and mix in some dust from the floor of the
The priest will have the woman stand before Yahweh, and place the memorial offering — the jealousy offering — in hands. The priest will hold the that a
The priest will put her oath and say to her, 'If no other man has slept with you and you haven't gone astray and made yourself contaminated while may this bitter water that carries a curse have no effect on you.
But if you have gone astray while under your husband's authority and made yourself contaminated — if some man other than your husband has slept with you' —
then the priest will put the woman under a He will say to her, 'May Yahweh make you an example of a among people — may Yahweh cause to and to
May this water that carries a curse enter your body and cause your abdomen to swell and your thigh to waste away.' And the woman will say, it be so. it be so.'
The priest will these on a and then wash the writing off into the bitter water.
He will have the woman drink the bitter water that carries the curse, and the water will enter her body to test her.
The priest will take the jealousy offering from the woman's hands, it and bring it to the altar.
The priest will take a handful of the grain offering as the and burn it on the altar. After that, he will have the woman drink the water.
When he has drink the water, this is what will happen: if she has made herself contaminated and been unfaithful to husband, the water that carries the curse will enter body and — her abdomen will swell and thigh will waste away. She will become an example of a curse among people.
But if the woman has not made herself contaminated and is she will be cleared and will be to
This is the for of — when a wife goes astray while under her husband's authority and makes herself contaminated,
or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a husband and he becomes suspicious of his wife. He is to have her stand before Yahweh, and the priest will carry out this entire procedure with her.
The husband will be from in this matter, but the wife will the of