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The law of jealousy

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Numbers 5:11–31: a husband who is jealous of his wife brings her to the priest with a tenth of an ephah of barley meal, a meal offering of jealousy. The priest sets her before the LORD and makes her take an oath, writes the curses in a book and wipes them into the water of bitterness, and she drinks it. If she is defiled, her body swells, her thigh falls away and she becomes a curse among her people; if she is clean, she is free and conceives offspring.

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NUM 5:11–31, engwebp
¹¹The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
¹²“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,
¹³and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;
¹⁴and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she isn’t defiled;
¹⁵then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
¹⁶The priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD.
¹⁷The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.
¹⁸The priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
¹⁹The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
²⁰But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—”
²¹then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;
²²and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”
²³“‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
²⁴He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.
²⁵The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.
²⁶The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
²⁷When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people.
²⁸If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.
²⁹“‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,
³⁰or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.
³¹The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”
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Evidence: Numbers 5:11–31

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Entry: The law of jealousy (event-num-law-of-jealousy)
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Current wording: Numbers 5:11–31: a husband who is jealous of his wife brings her to the priest with a tenth of an ephah of barley meal, a meal offering of jealousy. The priest sets her before the LORD and makes her take an oath, writes the curses in a book and wipes them into the water of bitterness, and she drinks it. If she is defiled, her body swells, her thigh falls away and she becomes a curse among her people; if she is clean, she is free and conceives offspring.
Cited evidence: NUM 5:11–31, engwebp
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