People who are impure
1The Lord said to Moses: 2‘You must tell the Israelites to send anyone out of the camp who is a leper and anyone who has a disease in his or her genitals, and anyone who has become impure because he has touched the body of a dead person. 3You must send these men and women away. They must go out of the camp, so that they do not make the camp where I live among the people impure.’
4The Israelites did that. They sent away all the people who were impure and they had to get out of the camp. The Israelites did what the Lord told Moses.
People who do something wrong to other people
5The Lord said to Moses: 6‘You must tell the Israelites that if a man or a woman does something wrong to another person, then he is unfaithful to the Lord and is guilty. 7He must confess his sin and he must pay because he has done wrong. He must give it to the person to whom he has done wrong and he must pay one 5th more. 8If the person to whom he has done wrong has died and had no family to whom he can pay the money, then he must give the money to the Lord. He must give it to the priest. But the person who has done wrong must also give a ram. The ram is the offering that the priest must sacrifice to make atonement for that person.’
Holy_gifts
9The Lord said to Moses: ‘When the Israelites bring holy_gifts as offerings to Me, the priest must get some of it. 10The holy_gifts that a person brings are his own gifts, but he must give the priest the part that he should get.’
A woman who is unfaithful to her husband
11The Lord said to Moses: 12‘You must tell the Israelites what a man must do if his wife is unfaithful to him 13by having sex with another man but her husband does not know about it because there were no witnesses who saw it. 14If her husband thinks that she may have been unfaithful to him and made herself impure, or if her husband thinks she did it, but it is not_true, and she has not been unfaithful or made herself impure, 15then the man must take his wife to the priest and he must bring an offering for his wife. The offering must be one 10th of an ephah of barley flour. He must not pour olive oil over it or put incense on it, because it is a grain-offering of a man who thinks his wife was unfaithful to him. The offering must show if the woman is guilty or not. 16The priest must tell the woman to come and stand in front of the Lord. 17Then the priest must take a clay pot with holy water and he must take some of the dust from the floor of the tent of the Lord and put it into the water. 18The priest must tell the woman to stand before the Lord and he must loosen her hair. Then he must put the grain-offering in her hands. The grain-offering must show if she is guilty or not. The priest must hold the pot with the bitter water in his hands. He must use the water to curse the woman if she is guilty. 19The priest must ask the woman before the Lord if she is guilty or not. He must tell her: “If you did not have sex with another man, if you have not been unfaithful to your husband and you did not make yourself impure, then this bitter water will do nothing to you. This water that I use can curse you. 20But if you were unfaithful to your husband and you made yourself impure because you had sex with another man, 21then I am telling you here before the Lord that I will curse you. Then you will become infertile and your people will curse you. 22Then this water that I use, that can curse you, will go into you and make you infertile.”
Then the woman must say: “Yes, if I am guilty, then this must happen to me.”
23Then the priest must write down the words that he uses to curse the woman on a piece of leather and he must wash the words off in the bitter water. 24Then the woman must drink the bitter water that the priest uses that can curse her. The bitter water must go into her. 25Then the priest must take the grain-offering from the woman, the offering of the man who thinks that his wife was unfaithful to him, and the priest must move the offering before the Lord and take it to the altar. 26The priest must take the flour in his hand that God must get and he must burn the flour on the altar. Then he must tell the woman to drink the water. 27If the woman has made herself impure and she was unfaithful to her husband and the bitter water that the priest uses that can curse her goes into her, then she will become infertile and her people will curse her. 28But if the woman did not make herself impure and she is pure, then the water will do nothing to her and she will have children again.
29This is the law for a woman when she is unfaithful to her husband and has made herself impure. 30This is also the law if a man only thinks that his wife was unfaithful to him. The priest must tell the woman to stand before the Lord and he must do everything that the law says. 31If the woman has sinned, the man will be innocent but the woman will be punished for the sin she has done.’
