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The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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And the Lord said to Moses,
2 Command the Israelites to put out of the camp everyone who is leprous, or has a discharge, and everyone who is unclean through contact with a corpse;
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Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;
3 you shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp; they must not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.
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Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them.
4 The Israelites did so, putting them outside the camp; as the Lord had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.
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So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to Moses, and put them outside the tent-circle.
5 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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And the Lord said to Moses,
6 Speak to the Israelites: When a man or a woman wrongs another, breaking faith with the Lord, that person incurs guilt
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Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;
7 and shall confess the sin that has been committed. The person shall make full restitution for the wrong, adding one-fifth to it, and giving it to the one who was wronged.
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Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.
8 If the injured party has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the Lord for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for the guilty party.
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But if the man has no relation to whom the payment may be made, then the payment for sin made to the Lord will be the priest's, in addition to the sheep offered to take away his sin.
9 Among all the sacred donations of the Israelites, every gift that they bring to the priest shall be his.
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And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.
10 The sacred donations of all are their own; whatever anyone gives to the priest shall be his.
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And every man's holy things will be his: whatever a man gives to the priest will be his.
11 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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And the Lord said to Moses,
12 Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If any man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,
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Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him
13 if a man has had intercourse with her but it is hidden from her husband, so that she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her since she was not caught in the act;
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By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;
14 if a spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself; or if a spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself;
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If the spirit of doubt comes into her husband's heart, and he has doubts of his wife, with good cause; or if he has doubts of her without cause:
15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. And he shall bring the offering required for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
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Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume; for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering keeping wrongdoing in mind.
16 Then the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord;
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And the priest will make her come near and put her before the Lord;
17 the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.
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And the priest will take holy water in a pot and put in it dust from the floor of the House;
18 The priest shall set the woman before the Lord, dishevel the woman's hair, and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. In his own hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.
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And he will make the woman come before the Lord with her hair loose, and will put the meal offering, the offering of a bitter spirit, in her hands; and the priest will take in his hand the bitter water causing the curse;
19 Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, "If no man has lain with you, if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while under your husband's authority, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings the curse.
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And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If no man has been your lover and you have not been with another in place of your husband, you are free from this bitter water causing the curse;
20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband's authority, if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had intercourse with you,"
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But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:
21 —let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse and say to the woman—"the Lord make you an execration and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your uterus drop, your womb discharge;
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Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach;
22 now may this water that brings the curse enter your bowels and make your womb discharge, your uterus drop!" And the woman shall say, "Amen. Amen."
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And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.
23 Then the priest shall put these curses in writing, and wash them off into the water of bitterness.
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And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out the writing with the bitter water;
24 He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her and cause bitter pain.
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And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her.
25 The priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall elevate the grain offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar;
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And the priest will take from her hand the meal offering of doubt, waving it before the Lord, and will take it to the altar;
26 and the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, and turn it into smoke on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
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And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on the altar as a sign, and then he will give the woman the bitter water.
27 When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall discharge, her uterus drop, and the woman shall become an execration among her people.
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And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.
28 But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be immune and be able to conceive children.
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But if she is clean she will be free and will have offspring.
29 This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself,
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This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;
30 or when a 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 apply this entire law to her.
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Or for a husband who, in a bitter spirit, has doubts in his heart about his wife; let him take her to the priest, who will put in force this law.
31 The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.
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Then the man will be free from all wrong, and the woman's sin will be on her.
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