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Yahweh spoke to Moses , saying,
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"Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue , and whoever is unclean by the dead.
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Both you shall put male and female outside of the camp ; that they not defile their camp , in the midst of which I dwell."
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The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp ; as Yahweh spoke to Moses , so did the children of Israel .
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Yahweh spoke to Moses , saying,
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"Speak to the children of Israel : 'When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh , and that soul is guilty;
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then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full , and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.
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But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest's ; besides the ram of the atonement , by which atonement shall be made for him.
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Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel , which they present to the priest, shall be his.
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Every man 's holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.'"
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Yahweh spoke to Moses , saying,
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"Speak to the children of Israel , and tell them: 'If any man 's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,
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and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband , and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;
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and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife , and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife , and she isn't defiled:
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then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal . He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy , a meal offering of memorial , bringing iniquity to memory .
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The priest shall bring her near , and set her before Yahweh ;
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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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The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh , 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 . The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
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The priest shall cause her to swear , and shall tell the woman , "If no man has lain with you, and if you haven 't gone aside to uncleanness , being under your husband , be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
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But if you have gone astray, being under your husband , and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband :"
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then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman , "Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;
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and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away." The woman shall say , "Amen, Amen."
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"'The priest shall write these curses in a book , and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.
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He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.
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The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman 's hand , and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh , and bring it to the altar .
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The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering , as its memorial, and burn it on the altar , and afterward shall make the woman drink the water .
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When he has made her drink the water , then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband , that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people .
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If the woman isn't defiled, but is 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 , goes astray, and is defiled;
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or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man , and he is jealous of his wife ; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh , and the priest shall execute on her all this law.
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The man shall be free from iniquity , and that woman shall bear her iniquity .'"