Numbers 5 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Unclean Sent Outside the Camp

(cf. Lev 15:1–33 )

Then Yahweh^H3068 spoke^H1696 to Moses^H4872, saying^H559,

Num 5:2“Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is [fn]unclean because of a dead person.

Num 5:3

Num 5:3“You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp where I dwell in their midst.”

Num 5:4

Num 5:4And the sons of Israel did so and sent them outside the camp; just as Yahweh had spoken to Moses, thus the sons of Israel did.

Restitution for Sins

(Lev 6:1–7 )

Num 5:5

Then Yahweh^H3068 spoke^H1696 to Moses^H4872, saying^H559,

Num 5:6

Num 5:6“Speak to the sons of Israel, ‘When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against Yahweh, and that person is guilty,

Num 5:7

Num 5:7then [fn]he shall confess [fn]his sins which [fn]he has committed, and he shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it and give it to him whom he has [fn]wronged.

Num 5:8

Num 5:8‘But if the man has no kinsman redeemer to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution which is made for the wrong must go to Yahweh for the priest, besides the ram of atonement, by which atonement is made for him.

Num 5:9

Num 5:9‘Also every [fn]contribution pertaining to all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they bring near to the priest, shall be his.

Num 5:10

Num 5:10‘So every man’s holy gifts shall be his; whatever any man gives to the priest, it becomes his.’”

The Statutes of Jealousy

Num 5:11

Then Yahweh^H3068 spoke^H1696 to Moses^H4872, saying^H559,

Num 5:12

Num 5:12“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

Num 5:13

Num 5:13and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is [fn]undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and she has not been caught in the act,

Num 5:14

Num 5:14 [fn]if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife and she has defiled herself, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife but she has not defiled herself,

Num 5:15

Num 5:15the man shall then bring his wife to the priest and shall bring as [fn]an offering for her one-tenth of an [fn]ephah of barley meal; he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, a reminder of iniquity.

Num 5:16

‘Then the priest^H3548 shall bring^H7126 her near^H7126 and have her stand^H5975 before^H6440 Yahweh^H3068,

Num 5:17

Num 5:17and the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

Num 5:18

Num 5:18‘The priest shall then have the woman stand before Yahweh and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and he shall place the grain offering of remembrance [fn]in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest is to be the water of bitterness that brings curses.

Num 5:19

Num 5:19‘Then the priest shall have her swear an oath and shall say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray into [fn]defilement, being under the authority of your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings curses;

Num 5:20

Num 5:20if you, however, have gone astray, being under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself, and a man other than your husband has lain with you”

Num 5:21

Num 5:21(then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people by Yahweh making your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell;

Num 5:22

Num 5:22and this water that brings curses shall go into your [fn]stomach and make your abdomen swell and your thigh fall away.” And the woman shall say, “Amen. Amen.”

Num 5:23

‘The priest^H3548 shall then write^H3789 these^H428 curses^H423 on a scroll^H5612, and he shall [fn]wash^H4229 them off^H4229 into the water^H4325 of bitterness^H4751.

Num 5:24

Num 5:24‘Then he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings curses, so that the water which brings a curse will go into her to cause bitterness.

Num 5:25

Num 5:25‘And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, and he shall wave the grain offering before Yahweh and bring it near to the altar;

Num 5:26

Num 5:26and the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial offering and offer it up in smoke on the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman drink the water.

Num 5:27

Num 5:27‘So he will have her drink the water, and it will be that, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings curses will go into her to cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

Num 5:28

Num 5:28‘But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will then be free and conceive a seed.

Num 5:29

‘This^H2088 is the law^H8451 of jealousy^H7068: when^H834 a wife^H802, being under^H8478 the authority of her husband^H376, goes^H7847 astray^H7847 and defiles^H2930 herself,

Num 5:30

Num 5:30or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he shall then make the woman stand before Yahweh, and the priest shall apply all this law to her.

Num 5:31