Numbers 5 Parallel Bible

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1	And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,	The LORD said to Moses,
2	Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the dead:	“Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp everyone who is leprous or has a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead.	“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.
3	Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them out of the camp, lest they defile it when I shall dwell with you.	You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”	Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
4	And the children of Israel did so, and they cast them forth without the camp, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.	And the people of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the LORD said to Moses, so the people of Israel did.	The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.
5	And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,	The LORD said to Moses,
6	Say to the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall have committed any of all the sins that men are wont to commit, and by negligence shall have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and offended,	“Speak to the people of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that people commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person realizes his guilt,	“Say to the Israelites: ‘Any man or woman who wrongs another in any way and so is unfaithful to the LORD is guilty
7	They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself, and the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have sinned.	he shall confess his sin that he has committed. And he shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong.	and must confess the sin they have committed. They must make full restitution for the wrong they have done, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the person they have wronged.
8	But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest's, besides the ram that is offered for expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice.	But if the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.	But if that person has no close relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest, along with the ram with which atonement is made for the wrongdoer.
9	an the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest:	And every contribution, all the holy donations of the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his.	All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.
10	And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is delivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his.	Each one shall keep his holy donations: whatever anyone gives to the priest shall be his.”	Sacred things belong to their owners, but what they give to the priest will belong to the priest.’”
11	And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,	Then the LORD said to Moses,
12	Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,	“Speak to the people of Israel, If any man’s wife goes astray and breaks faith with him,	“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
13	Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:	if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act,	so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),
14	If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,	and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself,	and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure—
15	He shall bring her to the priest, and shall offer an oblation for her, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon, nor put frank- incense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery.	then the man shall bring his wife to the priest and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.	then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.
16	The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord.	“And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the LORD.	“’The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the LORD.
17	And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.	And the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.	Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.
18	And when the woman shall stand before the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and shall, put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance, and the oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall hold the most bitter waters, whereon he hath heaped curses with execration.	And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and unbind the hair of the woman’s head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.	After the priest has had the woman stand before the LORD, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.
19	And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband's bed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not hurt thee.	Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.	Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.
20	But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:	But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,	But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband\|—
21	These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot, and may thy belly swell and burst asunder.	then’ (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) ‘the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your body swell.	here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—\|may the LORD cause you to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.
22	Let the cursed waters enter into thy belly, and may thy womb swell and thy thigh rot. And the woman shall answer, Amen, amen.	May this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your womb swell and your thigh fall away.’ And the woman shall say, ‘Amen, Amen.’	May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.” “’Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”
23	And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash them out with the most bitter waters, upon which he hath heaped the curses,	“Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.	“’The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.
24	And he shall give them her to drink. And when she hath drunk them up,	And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.	He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her.
25	The priest shall take from her hand the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall elevate it before the Lord, and shall put it upon the altar: yet so as first,	And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the grain offering before the LORD and bring it to the altar.	The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD and bring it to the altar.
26	To take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered, and burn it upon the altar: and so give the most bitter waters to the woman to drink.	And the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.	The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water.
27	And when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and having despised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go through her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse, and an example to all the people.	And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.	If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.
28	But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children.	But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.	If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.
29	This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled,	“This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,	“’This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband,
30	And the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her before the Lord, and the priest do to her according to all things that are here written:	or when the spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife. Then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall carry out for her all this law.	or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the LORD and is to apply this entire law to her.
31	The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity.	The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”	The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’”
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