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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,
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Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:
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If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,
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He shall bring her to the priest, and shall offer an oblation for her, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon, nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery.
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The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord.
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And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.
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And when the woman shall stand before the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and shall put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance, and the oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall hold the most bitter waters, whereon he hath heaped curses with execration.
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And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband’s bed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not hurt thee.
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But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:
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These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot, and may thy belly swell and burst asunder.