God tells Israel to send unclean people out of the camp and requires confession and restitution for wrongs. A ritual test is given for a husband who suspects his wife of unfaithfulness.
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying ,
2 Command the children of Israel , that they put out of the camp every leper , and every one that hath an issue , and whosoever is defiled by the dead :
3 Both male and female shall ye put out , without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps , in the midst whereof I dwell .
4 And the children of Israel did so , and put them out without the camp : as the LORD spake unto Moses , so did the children of Israel .
5 And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying ,
6 Speak unto 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 be guilty ;
7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done : and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed .
8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD , even to the priest ; beside the ram of the atonement , whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel , which they bring unto the priest , shall be his.
10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest , it shall be his.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying ,
12 Speak unto the children of Israel , and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside , and commit a trespass against him,
13 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, neither she be taken with the manner;
14 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 :
15 Then 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 ; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy , an offering of memorial , bringing iniquity to remembrance .
16 And the priest shall bring her near , and set her before the LORD :
17 And 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 :
18 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 :
19 And 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 :
20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband , and if thou be defiled , and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband :
21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing , and the priest shall say unto the woman , The 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 ;
22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels , to make thy belly to swell , and thy thigh to rot : And the woman shall say , Amen , amen .
23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book , and he shall blot them out with the bitter water :
24 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 .
25 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 :
26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering , even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar , and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water .
27 And 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 shall be a curse among her people .
28 And if the woman be not defiled , but be clean ; then she shall be free , and shall conceive seed .
29 This is the law of jealousies , when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband , and is defiled ;
30 Or 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 .
31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity , and this woman shall bear her iniquity .