4The Israelites did so and sent them outside the camp. The Israelites did just what the LORD said to Moses.
5The LORD spoke to Moses: 6Tell the Israelites: When a man or a woman commits any sin against anyone else, thus breaking faith with the LORD, that person becomes guilty. 7Such persons will confess the sin they have done. Each will make payment for his guilt, add one-fifth more, and give it to the injured party. 8If the person has no close relative to whom the payment can be made, then the compensation payment will go to the LORD for the priest. This is in addition to the ram of reconciliation by which the guilty party himself is reconciled. 9Any gift offering from all the sacred donations that the Israelites offer will be the property of the priest. 10The sacred donations belong to each person alone; whatever anyone gives to the priest will be his.
A woman accused of adultery
11The LORD spoke to Moses: 12Speak to the Israelites and say to them: A man may suspect that his wife has had an affairc and has broken faith with him, 13that a man has had intercourse with her unknown to her husband and that she has defiled herself in secret--even though there are no witnesses and she isn't caught. 14If jealousy overcomes him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if jealousy overcomes him and he is jealous of his wife who hasn't defiled herself, 15then the man will bring his wife to the priest. He will bring the offering required for her, one-tenth of an ephahd of barley flour. He will not pour oil on it, nor offer frankincense with it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a grain offering for recognition in order to recognize guilt. 16The priest will bring her close and make her stand before the LORD. 17The priest will take holy water in a clay jar, and taking dust from the floor of the dwelling, the priest will place it in the water. 18The priest will make the woman stand before the LORD, let the hair of the woman hang down, and place the grain offering for recognition, that is, the grain offering for jealousy, in her hands. The water of bitterness that brings the curse will be in the hands of the priest.
19Then the priest will make her swear a solemn pledge, saying to the woman, "If no man has slept with you and if you haven't had an affair, becoming defiled while married to your husband, then be immune from the water of bitterness that brings these curses. 20But if you have had an affair while married to your husband, if you have defiled yourself, and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you"--21then the priest must make the woman utter the curse and say to the woman, "May the LORD make you a curse and a harmful pledge among your people, when the LORD induces a miscarriage and your womb discharges. 22And may the water that brings these curses enter your stomach and make your womb discharge and make you miscarry."
And the woman will say, "I agree, I agree."
23The priest will write these curses in the scroll and wipe them off into the water of bitterness. 24Then he will make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse. And the water that brings the curse will enter her, causing bitterness. 25The priest will take the grain offering for jealousy from the woman's hands, elevate the grain offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar. 26The priest will take a handful of the grain offering as a token part of it and turn it into smoke on the altar. And afterward he will make the woman drink the water. 27When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, then the water that brings the curse will enter her, causing bitterness, and her womb will discharge and she will miscarry. The woman will be a curse among her people. 28But if the woman hasn't defiled herself and she is pure, then she will be immune and able to conceive.
29These are the instructions about jealousy, when a wife has an affair while married to her husband and defiles herself, 30or when jealousy overcomes a man and he is jealous of his wife. The priest will make the woman stand before the LORD and will follow all these instructions concerning her. 31The man will be free from guilt, but the woman will bear her guilt.
Instructions for the nazirite
Numbers 6The LORD spoke to Moses: 2Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If a man or a woman makes a binding promise to be a nazirite in order to be dedicated to the LORD, 3that person must refrain from wine and brandy. He or she may not drink wine vinegar or brandy vinegar, nor drink any grape juice or eat grapes, whether fresh or dried. 4While a nazirite, the person may not eat anything produced from the grapevine, not even its seeds or skin.
5For the term of the nazirite promise, no razor may be used on the head until the period of dedication to the LORD is fulfilled. The person is to be holy, letting his or her hair grow untrimmed. 6The period of dedication to the LORD also requires that the person not go near a corpse, 7whether father, mother, brother, or sister. Nazirites should not defile themselves because of the death of these people, because they bear the sign of their dedication to God on their heads.
8While a nazirite, the person is holy to the LORD. 9If someone suddenly dies nearby, defiling the head of the nazirite, he or she will shave the head on the day of cleansing; they will shave it on the seventh day. 10On the eighth day the person will bring two turtledoves or two young doves to the priest at the entrance of the meeting tent. 11The priest will offer one for a purification offering and the other as an entirely burned offering. He will seek reconciliation for the person on account of the guilt acquired from the corpse, and he will make the head holy again on that same day. 12The person will be rededicated to the LORD as a nazirite and bring a one-year-old male lamb for a compensation offering. The previous period will be invalid, because the nazirite promise was defiled.
13This is the Instruction for the nazirite. When the term as a nazirite is completed, the person will be brought to the entrance of the meeting tent 14and offer a gift to the LORD, consisting of a flawless one-year-old male lamb as an entirely burned offering, a flawless one-year-old female lamb as a purification offering, one flawless ram as a well-being sacrifice, 15and a basket of loaves of unleavened bread made with fine flour and mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, along with their grain offering and their drink offering. 16The priest will come close to the LORD and offer the purification and entirely burned offerings. 17The ram he will offer as a well-being sacrifice to the LORD with the basket of unleavened bread; then the priest will offer the grain offering and the drink offering. 18The nazirite will shave his ordained head at the meeting tent's entrance, take the hair from his ordained head, and put it in the fire under the well-being sacrifice. 19The priest will take the shoulder from the ram after it is boiled, one piece of unleavened bread from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and place them in the hands of the nazirite after the ordained head is shaved. 20Then the priest will raise them as an uplifted offering before the LORD; they are holy to the priest, with the breast of the uplifted offering and the thigh of the gift offering. After this the nazirite may drink wine.
21This is the instruction for the nazirite who takes the solemn promise. That person's offering to the LORD will be in accordance with the nazirite promise, in addition to whatever else the person may have offered. The person must do just as they have promised, in adherence with the nazirite promise.
Priestly blessing
22The LORD spoke to Moses: 23Tell Aaron and his sons: You will bless the Israelites as follows. Say to them:
24The LORD bless you and protect you.
25The LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you.
26The LORD lift up his face to you and grant you peace.
27They will place my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.
The dwelling's dedication
Numbers 7On the day