Mga Bilang 5
Magandang Balita Biblia
Ang mga Itinuturing na Marumi
5 Sinabi ni Yahweh kay Moises, 2 “Paalisin mo sa kampo ng Israel ang lahat ng may sakit sa balat na parang ketong, ang mga may tulo at ang lahat ng naging marumi dahil napahawak sila sa patay. 3 Wala kayong itatangi maging lalaki o babae. Lahat ng mga ito ay palalabasin upang hindi maging marumi ang kanilang kampo. Ako'y naninirahang kasama ng aking bayan.” 4 Tulad ng utos ni Yahweh kay Moises, lahat ng may sakit sa balat na parang ketong, may tulo, at naging marumi dahil sa pagkahawak sa patay ay pinalabas nila sa kampo.
Ang Pagbabayad sa Nagawang Masama
5 Sinabi(A) ni Yahweh kay Moises, 6 “Sabihin mo ito sa mga Israelita: Sinumang magtaksil kay Yahweh at makagawa ng masama sa kanyang kapwa ay 7 dapat umamin sa kasalanang kanyang nagawa, pagbabayaran niya ito nang buo maliban pa sa dagdag na ikalimang bahagi nito. Ito'y ibibigay niya sa ginawan niya ng masama o sa pinakamalapit na kamag-anak nito. 8 Kung wala itong malapit na kamag-anak, ang halagang ibabayad ay mapupunta kay Yahweh at ibibigay sa mga pari, bukod sa tupang ibibigay ng nagkasala upang ihandog bilang pantubos sa kanyang kasalanan. 9 Lahat ng natatanging handog ng mga Israelita para kay Yahweh ay mauuwi sa paring tumanggap niyon. 10 Kukunin ng bawat pari ang handog na ibinigay sa kanya.”
Ang Tuntunin tungkol sa Pagtataksil at Pagseselos
11 Sinabi ni Yahweh kay Moises, 12 “Ito ang sabihin mo sa mga Israelita: Kung ang isang babae'y nagtaksil sa asawa, 13 nakipagtalik sa ibang lalaki ngunit walang katibayang maipakita laban sa kanya sapagkat hindi siya nahuli sa akto, 14 o kaya nama'y ang asawang lalaki'y naghihinala sa kanyang asawa kahit wala itong ginagawang masama, 15 ang babae ay dadalhin ng lalaki sa pari. Ang lalaki'y maghahandog ng kalahating salop ng harinang sebada. Ang handog na ito'y hindi bubuhusan ng langis ni sasamahan ng insenso sapagkat ito'y handog tungkol sa pagseselos, handog upang hilinging lumabas ang katotohanan.
16 “Ang babae ay dadalhin ng pari sa harap ng altar. 17 Ang pari ay maglalagay ng sagradong tubig sa isang tapayan at hahaluan ng kaunting alikabok mula sa sahig ng tabernakulo. 18 Pagkatapos, ilulugay ang buhok ng babae at pahahawakan sa kanya ang handog na harina. Samantala, ang mangkok na naglalaman ng mapait na tubig na magpapalitaw sa katotohanan ay hawak naman ng pari. 19 Ang babae'y panunumpain ng pari. Sasabihin niya, ‘Kung hindi ka nagtaksil sa iyong asawa, hindi tatalab sa iyo ang sumpang taglay ng tubig na ito. 20 Ngunit kung nagtaksil ka sa iyong asawa, 21 paparusahan ka ni Yahweh upang maging halimbawa sa iyong mga kababayan: Patutuyuin ni Yahweh ang iyong bahay-bata at pamamagain ang iyong tiyan. 22 Tumagos nawa ang tubig na ito sa kaloob-looban ng iyong tiyan, pamagain ito at patuyuin ang iyong bahay-bata.’
“Ang babae'y sasagot ng ‘Amen. Ako'y sumasang-ayon.’
23 “Ang mga sumpang ito ay isusulat ng pari sa isang sulatan, huhugasan ito sa mapait na tubig, 24 at ipapainom sa babae ang pinaghugasan. Ito'y magdudulot ng matinding sakit sa babae. 25 Pagkatapos, ang handog na harinang hawak pa ng babae ay kukunin ng pari, iaalay kay Yahweh at ilalagay sa altar. 26 Ang pari ay kukuha ng isang dakot na harina mula sa handog at susunugin ito sa altar. Pagkatapos, ipapainom sa babae ang mapait na tubig. 27 Kung nagtaksil nga siya sa kanyang asawa, makakaramdam siya ng matinding sakit, matutuyo ang kanyang balakang at mamamaga ang kanyang tiyan. Sa ganitong paraan, hindi siya pamamarisan ng kanyang mga kababayan. 28 Ngunit kung hindi siya nagtaksil, hindi tatalab sa kanya ang sumpa at maaari pa siyang magkaanak.
29 “Ito ang tuntunin tungkol sa babaing nagtaksil sa asawa, 30 o kaya, kung naghihinala ang lalaki sa katapatan ng kanyang asawa: ang babae'y ihaharap sa altar, at isasagawa naman ng pari ang lahat ng dapat gawin ayon sa Kautusan. 31 Ang asawang lalaki ay hindi madadamay sa kasalanan ng babae, kundi ang babae lamang, kung talagang nagkasala, ang magdurusa sa ginawa niyang masama.”
Numbers 5
English Standard Version
Unclean People
5 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the people of Israel that they (A)put out of the camp everyone who is leprous[a] or has (B)a discharge and everyone who is (C)unclean through contact with the dead. 3 You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, (D)in the midst of which I dwell.” 4 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.
Confession and Restitution
5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 6 “Speak to the people of Israel, (E)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, 7 (F)he shall confess his sin that he has committed.[b] (G)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. 8 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 (H)the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him. 9 And (I)every contribution, all the holy donations of the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his. 10 Each one shall keep his holy donations: whatever anyone gives to the priest shall be his.”
A Test for Adultery
11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 12 “Speak to the people of Israel, If any man's wife goes astray and breaks faith with him, 13 if a man (J)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, (K)since she was not taken in the act, 14 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, 15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah[c] of barley flour. (L)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, (M)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 earthenware vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water. 18 And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord and (N)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. 19 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. 20 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, 21 then’ (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) (O)‘the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh fall away and your body swell. 22 May this water that brings the curse (P)pass into your bowels and make your womb swell and your thigh fall away.’ And the woman shall say, (Q)‘Amen, Amen.’
23 “Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness. 24 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. 25 And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand (R)and shall wave the grain offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar. 26 And the priest (S)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. 27 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 (T)shall become a curse among her people. 28 But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.
29 “This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, (U)though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself, 30 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. 31 The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman (V)shall bear her iniquity.”
Footnotes
- Numbers 5:2 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
- Numbers 5:7 Hebrew they shall confess their sin that they have committed
- Numbers 5:15 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
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