Numbers 5:12   (Read all of Numbers 5)

"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'If a man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him

Numbers 5:13   (Read all of Numbers 5)

so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),

Numbers 5:14   (Read all of Numbers 5)

and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure-or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure-

Numbers 5:16   (Read all of Numbers 5)

" 'The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord.

Numbers 5:17   (Read all of Numbers 5)

Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.

Numbers 5:18   (Read all of Numbers 5)

After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.

Numbers 5:19   (Read all of Numbers 5)

Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, "If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.

Numbers 5:20   (Read all of Numbers 5)

But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband"-

Numbers 5:21   (Read all of Numbers 5)

here the priest is to put the woman under this curse-"may the Lord cause you to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.

Numbers 5:22   (Read all of Numbers 5)

May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries." " 'Then the woman is to say, "Amen. So be it."

Numbers 5:23   (Read all of Numbers 5)

" 'The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.

Numbers 5:24   (Read all of Numbers 5)

He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her.

Numbers 5:27   (Read all of Numbers 5)

If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.

Numbers 5:28   (Read all of Numbers 5)

If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.

Numbers 5:30   (Read all of Numbers 5)

or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the Lord and is to apply this entire law to her.

Numbers 5:31   (Read all of Numbers 5)

The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.' "

Numbers 6:1   (Read all of Numbers 6)

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 6:2   (Read all of Numbers 6)

"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'If a man or woman wants to make a special vow, a vow of dedication to the Lord as a Nazirite,

Numbers 6:4   (Read all of Numbers 6)

As long as they remain under their Nazirite vow, they must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.

Numbers 6:7   (Read all of Numbers 6)

Even if their own father or mother or brother or sister dies, they must not make themselves ceremonially unclean on account of them, because the symbol of their dedication to God is on their head.

Numbers 6:9   (Read all of Numbers 6)

" 'If someone dies suddenly in the Nazirite's presence, thus defiling the hair that symbolizes their dedication, they must shave their head on the seventh day-the day of their cleansing.

Numbers 6:11   (Read all of Numbers 6)

The priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement for the Nazirite because they sinned by being in the presence of the dead body. That same day they are to consecrate their head again.

Numbers 6:12   (Read all of Numbers 6)

They must rededicate themselves to the Lord for the same period of dedication and must bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. The previous days do not count, because they became defiled during their period of dedication.

Numbers 6:14   (Read all of Numbers 6)

There they are to present their offerings to the Lord: a year-old male lamb without defect for a burnt offering, a year-old ewe lamb without defect for a sin offering, a ram without defect for a fellowship offering,