Numbers 5

The Message

Some Camp Rules

5 ^1-3God spoke to Moses: “Command the People of Israel to ban from the camp anyone who has an infectious skin disease, anyone who has a discharge, and anyone who is ritually unclean from contact with a dead body. Ban male and female alike; send them outside the camp so that they won’t defile their camp, the place I live among them.”

⁴The People of Israel did this, banning them from the camp. They did exactly what God had commanded through Moses.

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^5-10God spoke to Moses: “Tell the People of Israel, When a man or woman commits any sin, the person has broken trust with God, is guilty, and must confess the sin. Full compensation plus twenty percent must be made to whoever was wronged. If the wronged person has no close relative who can receive the compensation, the compensation belongs to God and must be given to the priest, along with the ram by which atonement is made. All the sacred offerings that the People of Israel bring to a priest belong to the priest. Each person’s sacred offerings are his own, but what one gives to the priest stays with the priest.”

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^11-15God spoke to Moses: “Tell the People of Israel, Say a man’s wife goes off and has an affair, is unfaithful to him by sleeping with another man, but her husband knows nothing about it even though she has defiled herself. And then, even though there was no witness and she wasn’t caught in the act, feelings of jealousy come over the husband and he suspects that his wife is impure. Even if she is innocent and his jealousy and suspicions are groundless, he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of two quarts of barley flour for her. He is to pour no oil on it or mix incense with it because it is a Grain-Offering for jealousy, a Grain-Offering for bringing the guilt out into the open.

^16-22“The priest then is to take her and have her stand in the presence of God. He is to take some holy water in a pottery jar and put some dust from the floor of The Dwelling in the water. After the priest has her stand in the presence of God he is to uncover her hair and place the exposure-offering in her hands, the Grain-Offering for jealousy, while he holds the bitter water that delivers a curse. Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say, ‘If no man has slept with you and you have not had an adulterous affair and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that delivers a curse not harm you. But if you have had an affair while married to your husband and have defiled yourself by sleeping with a man other than your husband’—here the priest puts the woman under this curse—‘may God cause your people to curse and revile you when he makes your womb shrivel and your belly swell. Let this water that delivers a curse enter your body so that your belly swells and your womb shrivels.’

“Then the woman shall say, ‘Amen. Amen.’

^23-28“The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash the words off into the bitter water. He then is to give the woman the bitter water that delivers a curse. This water will enter her body and cause acute pain. The priest then is to take from her hands a handful of the Grain-Offering for jealousy, wave it before God, and bring it to the Altar. The priest then is to take a handful of the Grain-Offering, using it as an exposure-offering, and burn it on the Altar; after this he is to make her drink the water. If she has defiled herself in being unfaithful to her husband, when she drinks the water that delivers a curse, it will enter her body and cause acute pain; her belly will swell and her womb shrivel. She will be cursed among her people. But if she has not defiled herself and is innocent of impurity, her name will be cleared and she will be able to have children.

^29-31“This is the law of jealousy in a case where a woman goes off and has an affair and defiles herself while married to her husband, or a husband is tormented with feelings of jealousy because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand in the presence of God and go through this entire procedure with her. The husband will be cleared of wrong, but the woman will pay for her wrong.”

Numeri 5

Het Boek

De wet voor ontrouwe vrouwen

5 ^1,2Dit 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. ³Dit geldt zowel voor mannen als voor vrouwen. Verwijder hen, zodat zij het kamp waarin Ik tussen u woon, niet verontreinigen.’ ⁴Ook deze opdracht werd door het volk Israël uitgevoerd.

^5,6Toen 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, ⁷hij zijn zonde moet belijden en wat hij schuldig is, volledig moet vergoeden met een vijfde deel extra, aan degene die hij heeft benadeeld. ⁸Maar 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. ^9,10Als het volk Israël een geschenk aan de Here brengt, zal dat geschenk naar de priester gaan.’

^11,12De Here zei tegen Mozes: ‘Zeg tegen het volk Israël dat als een getrouwde vrouw overspel pleegt, ¹³maar er geen bewijs van dat overspel is, omdat er geen getuige van bestaat ¹⁴en haar man jaloers en achterdochtig is, ¹⁵hij 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. ¹⁶De priester zal haar voor de Here brengen, ¹⁷heilig water in een stenen vat doen en dat vermengen met stof van de vloer van de tabernakel. ¹⁸Hij 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. ¹⁹Hij 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. ²⁰Maar als u overspel hebt gepleegd, ^21,22zal 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.” ²³Dan zal de priester deze vervloekingen in een boek schrijven en ze afwassen in het bittere water. ²⁴Als hij de vrouw het water laat drinken, wordt het bitter in haar lichaam (als zij schuldig is). ²⁵Dan 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. ²⁶Hij 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. ²⁷Als 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. ²⁸Maar als zij rein is en geen overspel heeft gepleegd, zal zij ongedeerd blijven en zwanger kunnen worden.

²⁹Dit is de wet voor ontrouwe vrouwen—of de verdenkingen van een man tegenover zijn vrouw— ³⁰om te bepalen of zij inderdaad ontrouw is geweest. Hij zal haar voor de Here brengen en de priester zal volgens deze wet handelen. ³¹Haar man zal niet verantwoordelijk worden gesteld voor haar zonde, want zij alleen is schuldig.’

Numbers 5

King James Version

5 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

²Command 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:

³Both 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.

⁴And 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.

⁵And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

⁶Speak 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;

⁷Then 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.

⁸But 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.

⁹And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

¹⁰And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

¹¹And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

¹²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

¹³And 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;

¹⁴And 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:

¹⁵Then 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.

¹⁶And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord:

¹⁷And 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:

¹⁸And 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:

¹⁹And 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:

²⁰But 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:

²¹Then 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;

²²And 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.

²³And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

²⁴And 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.

²⁵Then 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:

²⁶And 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.

²⁷And 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.

²⁸And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

²⁹This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

³⁰Or 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.

³¹Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

Numbers 5

New King James Version

Ceremonially Unclean Persons Isolated^(A)

5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every ^(B)leper, everyone who has a ^(C)discharge, and whoever becomes ^(D)defiled ^[a]by a corpse. ³You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps ^(E)in the midst of which I dwell.” ⁴And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

Confession and Restitution^(F)

⁵Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁶“Speak to the children of Israel: ^(G)‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit in unfaithfulness against the Lord, and that person is guilty, ⁷^(H)then he shall confess the sin which he has committed. He shall make restitution for his trespass ^(I)in full, plus one-fifth of it, and give it to the one he has wronged. ⁸But if the man has no ^[b]relative to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for the wrong must go to the Lord for the priest, in addition to ^(J)the ram of the atonement with which atonement is made for him. ⁹Every ^(K)offering^[c] of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be ^(L)his. ¹⁰And every man’s ^[d]holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest shall be ^(M)his.’ ”

Concerning Unfaithful Wives

¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹²“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him, ¹³and a man ^(N)lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and it is concealed that she has defiled herself, and there was no witness against her, nor was she ^(O)caught— ¹⁴if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes ^(P)jealous of his wife, who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, although she has not defiled herself— ¹⁵then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. He shall ^(Q)bring the offering required for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of jealousy, an offering for remembering, for ^(R)bringing iniquity to remembrance.

¹⁶‘And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord. ¹⁷The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water. ¹⁸Then the priest shall stand the woman before the ^(S)Lord, uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse. ¹⁹And the priest shall put her under oath, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness while under your husband’s authority, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse. ²⁰But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you”— ²¹then the priest shall ^(T)put the woman under the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman—^(U)“the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh ^[e]rot and your belly swell; ²²and may this water that causes the curse ^(V)go into your stomach, and make your belly swell and your thigh rot.”

‘^(W)Then the woman shall say, “Amen, so be it.”

²³‘Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall scrape them off into the bitter water. ²⁴And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her to become bitter. ²⁵^(X)Then the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, shall ^(Y)wave the offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar; ²⁶and the priest shall take a handful of the offering, ^(Z)as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water. ²⁷When he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, that the water that brings a ^(AA)curse will enter her and become bitter, and her belly will swell, her thigh will rot, and the woman ^(AB)will become a curse among her people. ²⁸But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be free and may conceive children.

²⁹‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, ^(AC)goes astray and defiles herself, ³⁰or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife; then he shall stand the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute all this law upon her. ³¹Then the man shall be free from ^[f]iniquity, but that woman ^(AD)shall bear her ^[g]guilt.’ ”

Footnotes

Numbers 5:2 by contact with
Numbers 5:8 redeemer, Heb. goel
Numbers 5:9 heave offering
Numbers 5:10 consecrated
Numbers 5:21 Lit. fall away
Numbers 5:31 guilt
Numbers 5:31 iniquity

The Message (MSG)

Het Boek (HTB)

King James Version (KJV)

Public Domain

New King James Version (NKJV)

Numbers 5 The Message

Some Camp Rules

Numeri 5 Het Boek

De wet voor ontrouwe vrouwen

Numbers 5 King James Version

Numbers 5 New King James Version

Ceremonially Unclean Persons Isolated(A)

Confession and Restitution(F)