Dual Panel1THE LORD said to Moses:
2“Command the Israelites to expel from the camp everyone who suffers from a ritually unclean skin disease or a discharge, and everyone ritually unclean through contact with a corpse.
3Put them outside the camp, both male and female, so that they do not defile your camps in which I dwell among you.”
4The Israelites did this: they expelled them from the camp, doing exactly as the LORD had said when he spoke to Moses.
5The LORD told Moses
6to say to the Israelites: “When anyone, man or woman, wrongs another and thereby breaks faith with the LORD, that person has incurred guilt which demands reparation.
7He must confess the sin he has committed, make restitution in full with the addition of one fifth, and give it to the one to whom compensation is due.
8If there is no next-of-kin to whom compensation can be paid, the compensation payable in that case is to be the LORD's, for the use of the priest, in addition to the ram of expiation with which the priest makes expiation for him.
9“Every contribution made by way of holy-gift which the Israelites bring to the priest is to be the priest's.
10The priest is to have the holy-gifts which a man gives; whatever is given to him is to be his.”
11The LORD told Moses
12to say to the Israelites: “When a married woman goes astray and is unfaithful to her husband
13by having sexual intercourse with another man, and this happens without the husband's knowledge, and without the woman being detected because, though she has been defiled, there is no direct evidence against her and she was not caught in the act,
14and when in such a case a fit of jealousy comes over the husband which makes him suspect his wife, whether she is defiled or not;
15then the husband must bring his wife to the priest together with the prescribed offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley-meal. He must not pour oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain-offering for jealousy, a grain-offering of protestation conveying an imputation of guilt.
16“The priest must bring her forward and set her before the LORD.
17He is to take holy water in an earthenware vessel, and take dust from the floor of the Tabernacle and add it to the water.
18He must set the woman before the LORD, uncover her head, and place the grain-offering of protestation in her hands; it is a grain-offering for jealousy. Holding in his own hand the ordeal-water which tests under pain of curse,
19the priest must put the woman on oath and say to her, ‘If no man has had intercourse with you, if you have not gone astray and let yourself become defiled while owing obedience to your husband, then may your innocence be established by the ordeal-water.
20But if, while owing him obedience, you have gone astray and let yourself become defiled, if any man other than your husband has had intercourse with you,’
21(the priest shall here put the woman on oath with an adjuration, and shall continue) ‘may the LORD make an example of you among your people in adjurations and in swearing of oaths by bringing upon you miscarriage and untimely birth;
22and let this ordeal-water that tests under pain of curse enter your body, bringing upon you miscarriage and untimely birth.’ The woman must respond, ‘Amen, Amen.’
23“The priest is to write these curses on a scroll, wash them off into the ordeal-water,
24and make the woman drink the ordeal-water; it will enter her body to test her.
25The priest is to take the grain-offering for jealousy from the woman's hand, present it as a special gift before the LORD, and offer it at the altar.
26He is to take a handful from the grain-offering by way of token, and burn it at the altar. Finally he must make the woman drink the water.
27If she has let herself become defiled and has been unfaithful to her husband, then, when the priest makes her drink the ordeal-water and it enters her body to test her, she will suffer a miscarriage or untimely birth, and her name will become an example in adjuration among her kin.
28But if the woman has not let herself become defiled and is pure, then her innocence is established and she will bear her child.
29“Such is the law for cases of jealousy, where a woman, owing obedience to her husband, goes astray and lets herself become defiled,
30or where a fit of jealousy comes over a man which causes him to suspect his wife. When he sets her before the LORD, the priest must deal with her as this law prescribes.
31No guilt will attach to the husband, but the woman must bear the penalty of her guilt.”