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Numbers 5

    ²Command 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:

    ³Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them out of the camp, lest they defile it when I shall dwell with you.

    ⁴And the children of Israel did so, and they cast them forth without the camp, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

    ⁵And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    ⁶Say 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,

    ⁷They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself, and the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have sinned.

    ⁸But 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.

    ⁹an the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest:

    ¹⁰And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is delivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his.

    ¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    ¹²Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,

    ¹³Shall 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:

    ¹⁴If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,

    ¹⁵He 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.

    ¹⁶The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord.

    ¹⁷And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.

    ¹⁸And 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.

    ¹⁹And 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.

    ²⁰But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:

    ²¹These 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.

    ²²Let the cursed waters enter into thy belly, and may thy womb swell and thy thigh rot. And the woman shall answer, Amen, amen.

    ²³And 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,

    ²⁴And he shall give them her to drink. And when she hath drunk them up,

    ²⁵The 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,

    ²⁶To 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.

    ²⁷And 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.

    ²⁸But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children.

    ²⁹This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled,

    ³⁰And 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:

    ³¹The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity.

Numbers 6

    ²Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When a man, or woman, shall make a vow to be sanctified, and will consecrate themselves to the Lord:

    ³They shall abstain from wine, and from every thing that may make a man drunk. They shall not drink vinegar of wine, or of any other drink, nor any thing that is pressed out of the grape: nor shall they eat grapes either fresh or dried.

    ⁴All the days that they are consecrated to the Lord by vow: they shall eat nothing that cometh of the vineyard, from the raisin even to the kernel.

    ⁵All the time of his separation no razor shall pass over his head, until the day be fulfilled of his consecration to the Lord. He shall be holy, and shall let the hair of his head grow.

    ⁶All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead,

    ⁷Neither shall he make himself unclean, even for his father, or for his mother, or 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 shall be holy to the Lord.

    ⁹But if any man die suddenly before him: the head of his consecration shall be defiled: and he shall shave it forthwith on the same day of his purification, and again on the seventh day.

    ¹⁰And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons to the priest in the entry of the covenant of the testimony.

    ¹¹And the priest shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust, and shall pray for him, for that he hath sinned by the dead: and he shall sanctify his head that day :

    ¹²And shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, offering a lamb of one year for sin: yet so that the former days be made void, because his sanctification was profaned.

    ¹³This is the law of consecration. When the days which he had determined by vow shall be expired, he shall bring him to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant,

    ¹⁴And shall offer his oblation to the Lord: one he lamb of a year old without blemish for a holocaust, and one awe lamb of a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for a victim of peace offering,

    ¹⁵A basket also of unleavened bread, tempered with oil, and wafers without leaven anointed with oil, and the libations of each:

    ¹⁶And the priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall offer both the sin offering and the holocaust.

    ¹⁷But the ram he shall immolate for a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, offering at the same time the basket of unleavened bread, and the libations that are due by custom.

    ¹⁸Then shall the hair of the consecration of the Nazarite, be shaved off before the door of the tabernacle of the covenant: and he shall take his hair, and lay it upon the fire, which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.

    ¹⁹And shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and he shall deliver them into the hands of the Nazarite, after his head is shaven.

    ²⁰And receiving them again from him, he shall elevate them in the sight of the Lord: and they being sanctified shall belong to the priest, as the breast, which was commanded to be separated, and the shoulder. After this the Nazarite may drink wine.

    ²¹This is the law of the Nazarite, when he hath vowed his oblation to the Lord in the time of his consecration, besides those things which his hand shall find, according to that which he had vowed in his mind, so shall he do for the fulfilling of his sanctification.

    ²²And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    ²³Say to Aaron and his sons: Thus shall you bless the children of Israel, and you shall say to them:

    ²⁴The Lord bless thee, and keep thee.

    ²⁵The Lord shew his face to thee, and have mercy on thee.

    ²⁶The Lord turn his countenance to thee, and give thee peace.

    ²⁷And they shall invoke my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.

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Mark 4

    ²And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his doctrine:

    ³Hear ye: Behold, the sower went out to sow.

    ⁴And whilst he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the birds of the air came and ate it up.

    ⁵And other some fell upon stony ground, where it had not much earth; and it shot up immediately, because it had no depth of earth.

    ⁶And when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

    ⁷And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

    ⁸And some fell upon good ground; and brought forth fruit that grew up, and increased and yielded, one thirty, another sixty, and another a hundred.

    ⁹And he said: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

    ¹⁰And when he was alone, the twelve that were with him asked him the parable.

    ¹¹And he said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all things are done in parables:

    ¹²That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand: lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

    ¹³And he saith to them: Are you ignorant of this parable? and how shall you know all parables?

    ¹⁴He that soweth, soweth the word.

    ¹⁵And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown, and as soon as they have heard, immediately Satan cometh and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

    ¹⁶And these likewise are they that are sown on the stony ground: who when they have heard the word, immediately recieve it with joy.

    ¹⁷And they have no root in themselves, but are only for a time: and then when tribulation and persecution ariseth for the word they are presently scandalized.

    ¹⁸And others there are who are sown among thorns: these are they that hear the word,

    ¹⁹And the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts after other things entering in choke the word, and it is made fruitless.

    ²⁰And these are they who are sown upon the good ground, who hear the word, and receive it, and yield fruit, the one thirty, another sixty, and another a hundred.