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No one has to give these holy gifts, but if someone does give them, they belong to the priest.'"
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Then the Lord said to Moses,
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"Tell the Israelites: 'A man's wife might be unfaithful to him
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and have sexual relations with another man. Her sin might be kept hidden from her husband so that he does not know about the wrong she did. Perhaps no one saw it, and she wasn't caught.
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But if her husband has feelings of jealousy and suspects she has sinned -- whether she has or not --
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he should take her to the priest. The husband must also take an offering for her of two quarts of barley flour. He must not pour oil or incense on it, because this is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of remembrance. It is to find out if she is guilty.
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"'The priest will bring in the woman and make her stand before the Lord.
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He will take some holy water in a clay jar, and he will put some dirt from the floor of the Holy Tent into the water.
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The priest will make the woman stand before the Lord, and he will loosen her hair. He will hand her the offering of remembrance, the grain offering for jealousy; he will hold the bitter water that brings a curse.
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The priest will make her take an oath and ask her, "Has another man had sexual relations with you? Have you been unfaithful to your husband? If you haven't, this bitter water that brings a curse won't hurt you.
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But if you have been unfaithful to your husband and have had sexual relations with a man besides him" --