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And Jehovah spake unto Moses , saying,
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Command the children of Israel , that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue , and whosoever is unclean by the dead:
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both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camp , in the midst whereof I dwell.
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And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp ; as Jehovah spake unto Moses , so did the children of Israel .
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And Jehovah spake unto Moses , saying,
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Speak unto the children of Israel , When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Jehovah , and that soul shall be guilty;
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then he shall confess his sin which he hath done: and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full , and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him in respect of whom he hath been guilty.
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But if the man have no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made unto Jehovah shall be the priest's ; besides the ram of the atonement , whereby atonement shall be made for him.
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And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel , which they present unto the priest, shall be his.
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And every man 's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
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And Jehovah spake unto Moses , saying,
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Speak unto the children of Israel , and say unto them, If any man 's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
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and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband , and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she be not taken in the act;
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and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife , and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife , and she be not defiled:
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then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and shall bring her oblation for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal ; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is a meal -offering of jealousy , a meal -offering of memorial , bringing iniquity to remembrance .
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And the priest shall bring her near , and set her before Jehovah :
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and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water .
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And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah , and let the hair of the woman 's head go loose, and put the meal-offering of memorial in her hands , which is the meal-offering of jealousy : and the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that causeth the curse.
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And the priest shall cause her to swear , and shall say unto the woman , If no man have lain with thee, and if thou have not gone aside to uncleanness , being under thy husband , be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse.
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But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband , and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband :
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then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman , Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell;
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and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say , Amen, Amen.
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And the priest shall write these curses in a book , and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness:
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and he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causeth the curse; and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her [and become] bitter.
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And the priest shall take the meal-offering of jealousy out of the woman 's hand , and shall wave the meal-offering before Jehovah , and bring it unto the altar :
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and the priest shall take a handful of the meal-offering , as the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar , and afterward shall make the woman drink the water .
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And when he hath made her drink the water , then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband , that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her [and become] bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people .
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And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean ; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed .
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This is the law of jealousy , when a wife , being under her husband , goeth aside, and is defiled;
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or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man , and he is jealous of his wife ; then shall he set the woman before Jehovah , and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
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And the man shall be free from iniquity , and that woman shall bear her iniquity .