Numeri 5
Het Boek
De wet voor ontrouwe vrouwen
5 1,2 Dit zijn de verdere opdrachten die de Here Mozes gaf: ‘Geef de Israëlieten opdracht dat zij alle melaatsen, allen die een open wond hebben en allen die onrein zijn doordat zij een dode hebben aangeraakt, uit het kamp moeten wegsturen. 3 Dit geldt zowel voor mannen als voor vrouwen. Verwijder hen, zodat zij het kamp waarin Ik tussen u woon, niet verontreinigen.’ 4 Ook deze opdracht werd door het volk Israël uitgevoerd.
5,6 Toen zei de Here tegen Mozes: ‘Zeg tegen het volk Israël dat als iemand, man of vrouw, een van de zonden doet die mensen tegen de Here kunnen bedrijven en daarmee zijn naaste schaadt, 7 hij zijn zonde moet belijden en wat hij schuldig is, volledig moet vergoeden met een vijfde deel extra, aan degene die hij heeft benadeeld. 8 Maar als de persoon die hij onrecht heeft aangedaan, is gestorven en er geen naaste bloedverwant is aan wie hij kan aflossen, moet die vergoeding aan de priester worden gegeven, samen met een ram als verzoening. 9,10 Als het volk Israël een geschenk aan de Here brengt, zal dat geschenk naar de priester gaan.’
11,12 De Here zei tegen Mozes: ‘Zeg tegen het volk Israël dat als een getrouwde vrouw overspel pleegt, 13 maar er geen bewijs van dat overspel is, omdat er geen getuige van bestaat 14 en haar man jaloers en achterdochtig is, 15 hij haar bij de priester brengt met een offer voor haar van 2,2 liter gerstemeel, zonder olie of wierook erdoor, want het is een spijsoffer van jaloersheid. Dit offer dient om de waarheid aan het licht te brengen of zij wel of niet schuldig is. 16 De priester zal haar voor de Here brengen, 17 heilig water in een stenen vat doen en dat vermengen met stof van de vloer van de tabernakel. 18 Hij zal haar haren losmaken en haar het spijsoffer van de jaloersheid in de handen geven om te bepalen of de vermoedens van haar man juist zijn. De priester zal voor haar gaan staan met het vat met bitter water dat een vloek brengt. 19 Hij zal van haar eisen dat zij verklaart onschuldig te zijn en dan zal hij tegen haar zeggen: “Als geen andere man met u heeft geslapen dan uw eigen man, blijf dan vrij van de gevolgen van dit bittere water dat de vloek brengt. 20 Maar als u overspel hebt gepleegd, 21,22 zal de Here u tot een vloek onder uw volksgenoten maken, want Hij zal uw heup laten wegrotten en uw buik laten opzwellen.” En de vrouw zal daarop antwoorden: “Ja, laat het zo zijn.” 23 Dan zal de priester deze vervloekingen in een boek schrijven en ze afwassen in het bittere water. 24 Als hij de vrouw het water laat drinken, wordt het bitter in haar lichaam (als zij schuldig is). 25 Dan zal de priester haar het spijsoffer van de jaloersheid uit handen nemen, het voor de Here op en neer bewegen en het naar het altaar dragen. 26 Hij zal er een handvol van nemen—een deel voor het geheel—dat op het altaar verbranden en daarna de vrouw van het water laten drinken. 27 Als zij is verontreinigd, doordat zij overspel heeft gepleegd, zal het water in haar lichaam bitter worden, haar buik zal opzwellen en haar heup zal wegrotten. Zij zal een vloek onder haar volk zijn. 28 Maar als zij rein is en geen overspel heeft gepleegd, zal zij ongedeerd blijven en zwanger kunnen worden.
29 Dit is de wet voor ontrouwe vrouwen—of de verdenkingen van een man tegenover zijn vrouw— 30 om te bepalen of zij inderdaad ontrouw is geweest. Hij zal haar voor de Here brengen en de priester zal volgens deze wet handelen. 31 Haar man zal niet verantwoordelijk worden gesteld voor haar zonde, want zij alleen is schuldig.’
Numbers 5
Legacy Standard Bible
Unclean Sent Outside the Camp
5 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the sons of Israel that they (A)send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a (B)discharge and everyone who is [a](C)unclean because of a dead person. 3 You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp where I dwell (D)in their midst.” 4 And the sons of Israel did so and sent them outside the camp; just as Yahweh had spoken to Moses, thus the sons of Israel did.
Restitution for Sins
5 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 6 “Speak to the sons of Israel, ‘(E)When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against Yahweh, and that person is guilty, 7 then [b]he shall (F)confess [c]his sins which [d]he has committed, and he (G)shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it and give it to him whom he has [e]wronged. 8 But if the man has no kinsman redeemer to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution which is made for the wrong must go to Yahweh for the priest, besides the ram of atonement, by which atonement is made for him. 9 (H)Also every [f]contribution pertaining to all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they bring near to the priest, shall be his. 10 So every man’s holy gifts shall be his; whatever any man gives to the priest, it (I)becomes his.’”
The Statutes of Jealousy
11 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 12 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife (J)goes astray and is unfaithful to him, 13 and a man lies (K)sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is [g]undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and she has not been caught in the act, 14 [h]if a spirit of (L)jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife and she has defiled herself, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife but she has not defiled herself, 15 the man shall then bring his wife to the priest and shall bring as [i]an offering for her one-tenth of an [j]ephah of barley meal; he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, (M)a reminder of iniquity.
16 ‘Then the priest shall bring her near and have her stand before Yahweh, 17 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water. 18 The priest shall then have the woman stand before Yahweh and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and he shall place the grain offering of remembrance [k]in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest is to be the water of bitterness that brings curses. 19 Then the priest shall have her swear an oath and shall say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not (N)gone astray into [l]defilement, being under the authority of your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings curses; 20 if you, however, have (O)gone astray, being under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself, and a man other than your husband has lain with you” 21 (then the priest shall have the woman (P)swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people by Yahweh making your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell; 22 and this water that brings curses shall go into your [m]stomach and make your abdomen swell and your thigh fall away.” And the woman (Q)shall say, “Amen. Amen.”
23 ‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall [n]wash them off into the water of bitterness. 24 Then he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings curses, so that the water which brings a curse will go into her to cause bitterness. 25 And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, and he shall wave the grain offering before Yahweh and bring it near to the altar; 26 and (R)the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial offering and offer it up in smoke on the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman drink the water. 27 So he will have her drink the water, and it will be that, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings curses will go into her to cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become (S)a curse among her people. 28 But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will then be free and conceive a seed.
29 ‘This is the law of jealousy: when a wife, being under the authority of her husband, (T)goes astray and defiles herself, 30 or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he shall then make the woman stand before Yahweh, and the priest shall apply all this law to her. 31 Moreover, the man will be free from [o]guilt, but that woman shall (U)bear her [p]guilt.’”
Footnotes
- Numbers 5:2 Or defiled, cf. 5:3, 13, 14
- Numbers 5:7 Lit they
- Numbers 5:7 Lit their
- Numbers 5:7 Lit they have
- Numbers 5:7 Lit guilty
- Numbers 5:9 Lit heave offering
- Numbers 5:13 Lit concealed
- Numbers 5:14 Lit and
- Numbers 5:15 Lit her
- Numbers 5:15 An ephah was approx. 21 qt. or 23 l
- Numbers 5:18 Lit on her palms
- Numbers 5:19 Or uncleanness
- Numbers 5:22 Or inward parts
- Numbers 5:23 Lit wipe
- Numbers 5:31 Or iniquity
- Numbers 5:31 Or iniquity
Numbers 5
King James Version
5 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.
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