5:1¹ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 5:2 “Command the Israelites that they put out² of the camp every leper,³ everyone who has a discharge,⁴ and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.⁵ 5:3 You must put out both male and female; you must put them outside the camp, so that⁶ they may not defile their camps, in the midst of which I live.” 5:4 So the Israelites did so, and put them outside the camp. As the LORD had spoken⁷ to Moses, so the Israelites did.

5:5 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 5:6 “Speak to the Israelites: ‘When⁸ a man or a woman commits any sin that men commit,⁹ thereby breaking faith¹⁰ with the LORD, and that person is found guilty,¹¹ 5:7 then he must confess¹² his sin which he has committed; and he must make full reparation,¹³ add one fifth to it, and give it to whomever he wronged.¹⁴ 5:8 But if the individual has no close relative¹⁵ to whom reparation may be made for the wrong, the reparation for the wrong must be paid to the LORD¹⁶ for the priest, in addition to the ram of the atonement with which atonement is made for him. 5:9 And every offering¹⁷ of all the holy things of the Israelites, which they bring to the priest, will be his. 5:10 And every man’s holy things¹⁸ will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his’.”

5:11 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 5:12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him, 5:13 and a man has sexual relations²⁰ with her,²¹ and it is concealed from the eyes of her husband, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since²² there was no witness against her, neither was she caught—5:14 and if jealous feelings²³ come over him and he becomes jealous²⁴ of his wife, when she is defiled;²⁵ or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife, when she is not defiled—5:15 then²⁶ the man must bring his wife to the priest, and he must bring the offering required for her, one tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he must not pour oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of suspicion,²⁷ a grain offering for remembering,²⁸ for bringing²⁹ iniquity to remembrance.

5:16 Then the priest will bring her near, and have her stand³⁰ before the LORD. 5:17 The priest will then take holy water³¹ in a pottery jar, and take some of the dust³² that will be on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water. 5:18 Then the priest will have the woman stand before the LORD, uncover the woman’s head, and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of suspicion. And in the hand of the priest will be the bitter water that brings a curse.³³ 5:19 Then the priest will put her under oath, and say to the woman, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.³⁴ 5:20 But if you³⁵ have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you—”³⁶ 5:21 Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse,³⁷ and he will say to the woman, ‘The LORD make you an attested curse³⁸ among your people,³⁹ if the LORD makes⁴⁰ your thigh fall away and your belly swell;⁴¹ 5:22 and this water that causes the curse will go⁴² into your stomach, and make your belly swell and your thigh rot.” Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.”⁴³

5:23 And then the priest will write these curses on the scroll, and then scrape them off into the bitter water.⁴⁴ 5:24 Then he will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness. 5:25 And the priest will take the grain offering of suspicion from the woman’s hand, wave the grain offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar; 5:26 then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water. 5:27 And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, it will be that the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness, and her belly will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people. 5:28 But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free and will be able to bear children.

5:29 This is the law for cases of jealousy,⁴⁵ when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself, 5:30 or, when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife; then he must have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest will perform all this law upon her. 5:31 Then the man will be free from iniquity, but that woman will bear the consequences⁴⁶ of her iniquity.’”⁴⁷