Numbers 5–6

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ²Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every ^aleper, and every one that hath an ^bissue, and whosoever is defiled by the ^cdead: ³both male and female shall ye put out, ^dwithout the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, ^ein the midst whereof I dwell. ⁴And the children of Israel did so, and put them out ^dwithout the camp: as the Lord spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.

⁵And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ⁶Speak unto the children of Israel, ^fWhen a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the Lord, and that person be guilty; ^7gthen they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass ^hwith the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed. ⁸But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the Lord, even to the priest; beside ⁱthe ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. ⁹And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, ^kshall be his. ¹⁰And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, ^lit shall be his.

¹¹And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ¹²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, ¹³and 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, neither ^mshe be taken with the manner; ¹⁴and 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: ¹⁵then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; ⁿhe shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, ^obringing iniquity to remembrance. ¹⁶And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord: ¹⁷and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: ¹⁸and 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: ¹⁹and the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have 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: ²⁰but if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man hath lain with thee beside thine husband: ²¹then the priest shall ^pcharge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, ^qThe Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; ²²and this water that causeth the curse ^rshall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, ^sAmen, amen. ²³And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: ²⁴and 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. ²⁵Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall ^twave the offering before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar: ²⁶and the priest ^ushall take a handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. ²⁷And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that if she be defiled, and have 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 rot: and the woman ^xshall be a curse among her people. ²⁸And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. ²⁹This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another ^yinstead of her husband, and is defiled; ³⁰or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. ³¹Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman ^zshall bear her iniquity.

VI.And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall ^aseparate themselves to vow a vow of ^ba Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Lord: ³he shall separate himself from ^cwine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. ⁴All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. ⁵All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no ^drasor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let ^ethe locks of the hair of his head grow. ⁶All the days that he separateth himself unto the Lord ^fhe shall come at no dead body. ^7gHe shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head. ⁸All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord. ⁹And if any man die ^hvery suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall ⁱshave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. ¹⁰And ^kon the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: ¹¹and the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day. ¹²And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year ^lfor a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled. ¹³And this is the law of the Nazarite, ^mwhen the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: ¹⁴and he shall offer his offering unto the Lord, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish ⁿfor a sin offering, and one ram without blemish ^ofor peace offerings, ¹⁵and a basket of unleavened bread, ^pcakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread ^qanointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their ^rdrink offerings. ¹⁶And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer ^shis sin offering, and ^shis burnt offering: ¹⁷and he shall offer ^sthe ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also ^this meat offering, and his drink offering. ¹⁸And the Nazarite ^ushall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings. ¹⁹And the priest shall take the ^xsodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and ^yshall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven: ²⁰and the priest shall ^zwave them for a wave offering before the Lord: ^athis is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine. ²¹This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the Lord for his separation, besides that ^bthat his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.

²²And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ²³Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ^cye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,

²⁴The Lord bless thee, and ^dkeep thee:

²⁵The Lord ^emake his face shine upon thee, and ^fbe gracious unto thee:

²⁶The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

^27gAnd they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

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