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Numbers 5 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Ceremonially Unclean Persons Isolated
The Law Concerning Jealousy
(cf. Lev. 15:1–33 )

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:1 - And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - “You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:4 - And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the LORD spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.
Confession and Restitution
(Lev. 6:1–7 )

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:5 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - “Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit in unfaithfulness against the LORD, and that person is guilty,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:7 - ‘then he shall confess the sin which he has committed. He shall make restitution for his trespass in full, plus one-fifth of it, and give it to the one he has wronged.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:8 - ‘But if the man has no relative to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for the wrong must go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of the atonement with which atonement is made for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:9 - ‘Every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:10 - ‘And every man’s holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest shall be his.’ ”
Concerning Unfaithful Wives

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:11 - And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12 - “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - ‘and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and it is concealed that she has defiled herself, and there was no witness against her, nor was she caught—

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - ‘if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, although she has not defiled herself—

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:15 - ‘then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. He shall bring the offering required for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of jealousy, an offering for remembering, for bringing iniquity to remembrance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:16 - ‘And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17 - ‘The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:18 - ‘Then the priest shall stand the woman before the LORD, uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - ‘And the priest shall put her under oath, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness while under your husband’s authority, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - “But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you”—

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - then the priest shall put the woman under the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman—“the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh rot and your belly swell;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22 - “and may this water that causes the curse go into your stomach, and make your belly swell and your thigh rot.” Then the woman shall say, “Amen, so be it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 - ‘Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall scrape them off into the bitter water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:24 - ‘And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her to become bitter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:25 - ‘Then the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, shall wave the offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:26 - ‘and the priest shall take a handful of the offering, as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - ‘When he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, that the water that brings a curse will enter her and become bitter, and her belly will swell, her thigh will rot, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - ‘But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be free and may conceive children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29 - ‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:30 - ‘or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife; then he shall stand the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute all this law upon her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:31 - ‘Then the man shall be free from iniquity, but that woman shall bear her guilt.’ ”
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