1Yahweh said to Moses,
2“Tell the people of Israel to remove from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a discharge, and anyone who has touched a dead body.
3You must send both men and women outside the camp so they do not make their camp unclean, because I live there among them.”
4The people of Israel did this and sent them outside the camp, just as Yahweh had told Moses.
5Yahweh said to Moses,
6“Tell the people of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any kind of sin against another person, thereby being unfaithful to Yahweh, and that person is guilty,
7then they must confess the sin they have committed. They must fully repay the one they wronged, add an extra twenty percent, and give it to the person they harmed.
8But if that person has no close relative to whom they can repay the wrong, then the repayment for the wrong belongs to Yahweh and goes to the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement used to make them right with God.
9Every sacred offering that the Israelites bring to the priest will belong to him.
10Each person’s holy offerings belong to them; whatever anyone gives to the priest will be his.’”—
11Yahweh said to Moses,
12“Tell the people of Israel: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,
13and another man has sexual relations with her, but it is hidden from her husband’s eyes, and it is kept secret, and she has become defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she wasn’t caught in the act;
14and a spirit of jealousy comes over her husband, and he becomes jealous of his wife, and she is defiled; or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he becomes jealous of his wife, even if she isn’t defiled:
15then the man must bring his wife to the priest and bring an offering for her: two pounds of barley flour. He must not pour oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a memorial offering that brings sin to remembrance.
16The priest will bring her close and have her stand before Yahweh;
17and the priest will take holy water in a clay pot. Then he will take some of the dust from the floor of the Tent of Meeting and put it into the water.
18The priest must present the woman before Yahweh. He will loosen her hair and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering for jealousy. The priest will hold the bitter water that brings a curse.
19The priest will make her swear an oath and say to the woman, “If no other man has slept with you, and if you have not become impure while married to your husband, then be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.
20But if you have gone astray while married to your husband, and if you are impure, and some man other than your husband has slept with you—”
21then the priest will make the woman swear with an oath that brings a curse. The priest will say to the woman, “May Yahweh make you an object of cursing and an oath among your people, when Yahweh makes your thigh waste away and your belly swell;
22and may this water that brings a curse go into your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to waste away.” The woman will say, “Amen, Amen.”
23“‘The priest will write these curses in a scroll and wash them into the bitter water.
24He will make the woman drink the bitter water that causes the curse. The water that causes the curse will enter her and become bitter.
25The priest will take the grain offering for jealousy from the woman’s hand, wave the grain offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.
26The priest will take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar. Afterward, he will make the woman drink the water.
27When he has made her drink the water, if she is impure and has been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that causes the curse will enter her and become bitter. Her belly will swell, and her thigh will waste away, and the woman will be an object of cursing among her people.
28However, if the woman is not impure but is clean, then she will be free from guilt and able to have children.
29“‘This is the law for jealousy: when a wife, while married to her husband, goes astray and becomes impure;
30or when a man is overcome by a spirit of jealousy and becomes jealous of his wife, then he must present the woman before Yahweh, and the priest will carry out this entire law concerning her.
31The man will be free from guilt, but that woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’”