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And the LORD spoke to 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 whoever is defiled 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 camps , in the midst of which I dwell.
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And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp : as the LORD spoke to Moses , so did the children of Israel .
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And the LORD spoke to Moses , saying,
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Speak to the children of Israel , When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD , and that person shall be guilty;
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Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal of it, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him against whom he hath trespassed.
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But if the man shall have no kinsman to recompense the trespass to, let the trespass be recompensed to the LORD , even to the priest; besides the ram of the atonement , by which an atonement shall be made for him.
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And 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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And every man 's hallowed things shall be his: whatever any man giveth to the priest, it shall be his.
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And the LORD spoke to Moses , saying,
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Speak to the children of Israel , and say to them, If any man 's wife shall go astray, and commit a trespass against him,
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And a man shall lie with her carnally, and it shall be hid from the eyes of her husband , and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
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And the spirit of jealousy shall come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife , and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy shall 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 to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley -meal ; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense upon it; for it is an offering of jealousy , an offering of memorial , bringing iniquity to remembrance .
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And the priest shall bring her near , and set her before the LORD :
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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 the LORD , and uncover the woman 's head , and put the offering of memorial in her hands , which is the jealousy -offering : and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
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And the priest shall charge her by an oath , and say to the woman , If no man hath lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband , be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
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But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband , and if thou art defiled, and some man hath lain with thee besides thy husband :
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Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman , The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when The LORD doth make thy thigh to perish, and thy belly to swell;
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And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to perish. 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 with the bitter water :
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And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
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Then the priest shall take the jealousy -offering out of the woman 's hand , and shall wave the offering before the LORD , and offer it upon the altar :
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And the priest shall take a handful of the offering , even the memorial of it, and burn it upon the altar , and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water .
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And when he hath made her to drink the water , then it shall come to pass, that, if she is defiled, and hath done trespass against her husband , that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall perish: and the woman shall be a curse among her people .
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And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean ; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed .
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This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth astray to another instead of her husband , and is defiled;
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Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he is jealous over his wife , and shall set the woman before the LORD , and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
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Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity , and this woman shall bear her iniquity .