Cleansing the Camps
(Leviticus 13:1–46)

1And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Command the sons of Israel, and they shall put out of the camp every leper,† and everyone who has a discharge, and everyone defiled by a corpse. 3From male to female you⁺ shall put out, toward outside the camp you⁺ shall put them, that they may not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.”

4And the sons of Israel did so, and put them toward outside the camp; as YHWH spoke to Moses, so the sons of Israel did.

Confession and Restitution
(Luke 19:1–10)

5And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 6“Declare to the sons of Israel, when a man or woman commits any sin that men commit in unfaithfulness against YHWH, then that person is guilty, 7and he shall confess the sin that he has committed, and He shall make restitution for his trespass in full, and plus a fifth of it to it, and give it to the one he has done wrong unto him.

8But if the man has no redeemer to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for the wrong is unto YHWH, for the priest, in addition to the ram of the atonement, with which atonement is made for him.

9And every offering of all the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they bring to the priest, unto him shall be. 10And every man’s holy things shall be unto him; whatever any man gives the priest shall be unto him.”

The Adultery Test

11And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 12“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: If any man his wife goes astray and commits a trespass against him, 13and a man lying with her lies, sowing, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and it is concealed, and she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and she was not caught, 14and if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, and she has defiled herself; or if a 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.

And He shall bring the offering required for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal.† He shall not pour on it oil and not put on it frankincense, because it is a grain offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, for bringing to remembrance iniquity.

16And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the face of YHWH. 17And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take and put it into the water.

18And the priest shall have the woman stand before the face of YHWH, and he shall uncover the head of the woman and put in her hands the offering of the memorial, that is the grain offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have 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, be free from these bitter waters that bring the curse. 20And if you have gone astray while under your husband, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man has lain with you in intercourse, other than your husband’— 21then the priest shall put the woman under the curse of the oath—and the priest shall say to the woman, ‘YHWH will make you an oath and a curse among your people, when YHWH makes your thigh to rot and your belly to swell. 22And may these waters that cause the curse go into your stomach, and make swell your belly, and your thigh rot.’

And the woman shall say, ‘Amen, Amen.’

23And the priest shall write these oaths in the book, and he shall wipe them off into the bitter water. 24And he shall make the woman drink the bitter waters that bring a curse, and the waters that bring the curse shall enter into her for bitterness. 25And the priest shall take from the hand of the woman the grain offering of jealousy, and he shall wave the offering before the face of YHWH and bring it to the altar. 26And the priest shall take a handful of the offering as its memorial and burn it on the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman drink the water.

27And he shall make her drink the water, and it shall come to pass if she has defiled herself and acted unfaithfully toward her husband, that the water bringing a curse will enter into her for bitterness, and her belly will swell, and her thigh will rot, and the woman will become a curse among her people. 28But if the woman has not defiled herself and she is clean, then she shall be free and she may be sown with seed.

29This is the law of jealousy, when a wife goes astray while under her husband and defiles herself, 30or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife. And he shall have the woman stand before the face of YHWH, and the priest shall apply upon her all this law. 31And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.”