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Numbers 5 :: New International Version (NIV)

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The Purity of the Camp

(cf. Lev 15:1–33 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:1 - The LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease[fn] or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:4 - The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.

Restitution for Wrongs

(Lev 6:1–7 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:5 - The LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any man or woman who wrongs another in any way[fn] and so is unfaithful to the LORD is guilty

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:7 - and must confess the sin they have committed. They must make full restitution for the wrong they have done, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the person they have wronged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:8 - But if that person has no close 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 with which atonement is made for the wrongdoer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:9 - All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:10 - Sacred things belong to their owners, but what they give to the priest will belong to the priest.’ ”

The Test for an Unfaithful Wife

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:11 - Then the LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12 - “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure—

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:15 - then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[fn] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:16 - “ ‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17 - Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:18 - After the priest has had the woman stand before the LORD, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”—

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the LORD cause you to become a curse[fn] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22 - May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.” “ ‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 - “ ‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:24 - He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:25 - The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD and bring it to the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:26 - The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial[fn] offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29 - “ ‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:30 - or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the LORD and is to apply this entire law to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:31 - The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’ ”
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NIV Footnotes
The Hebrew word for defiling skin disease, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
Or woman who commits any wrong common to mankind
That is, probably about 3 1/2 pounds or about 1.6 kilograms
That is, may he cause your name to be used in cursing (see Jer. 29:22); or, may others see that you are cursed; similarly in verse 27.
Or representative
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