²⁹ “This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,^(A)

¹⁹ Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while under your husband’s authority, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings the curse.

¹² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,^(A)

Social Injustice Denounced

¹⁵ then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. And he shall bring the offering required for her, one-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.^(A)

³² “This is the rule for those who have a discharge: for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby;^{(A) 33} for her who is in the infirmity of her menstrual period; for anyone, male or female, who has a discharge; and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean.”^(B)

⁵⁴ “This is the rule for any defiling disease: for an itch,^{(A) 55} for defiling diseases in clothing and houses, ⁵⁶ and for a swelling^[a] or an eruption or a spot,^{(B) 57} to determine when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the rule for defiling diseases.”

⁵⁹ “This is the rule for a defiling disease in a cloth of wool or linen, either in warp or woof, or in anything of skin, to decide whether it is clean or unclean.”

⁴⁶ “This is the law pertaining to land animal and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms upon the earth,

Further Instructions

¹¹ “This is the rule of the sacrifice of well-being that one may offer to the Lord.