Lejren skal være hellig
1Herren sagde til Moses: 2„Giv Israels folk ordre til at sende alle, der lider af smittefarlige hudsygdomme, ud af lejren. Desuden skal alle, der har udflåd eller har været i berøring med lig, udelukkes fra at opholde sig i lejren, for den slags personer er urene. 3Denne ordning gælder for både mænd og kvinder. I skal udelukke disse mennesker, så de ikke besmitter lejren, hvor jeg har taget bolig.” 4Israelitterne gjorde straks, som Herren havde befalet Moses: alle de urene blev sendt uden for lejren.
Erstatningspligt og offergaver
5Da sagde Herren til Moses: 6„Sig til Israels folk, at hvis en mand eller en kvinde svigter mig ved at begå en synd og dermed pådrager sig skyld, 7skal de bekende den synd, de har begået. Hvis synden drejer sig om materielle værdier, skal den forurettede have erstatning med et tillæg på 20 procent. 8Men hvis den forurettede er død, og der ikke er nogen slægtning til at modtage erstatning, skal betalingen tilfalde præsten sammen med den vædder, som bringes til soning for synden. 9-10Ligeledes tilfalder alle særlige offergaver præsten.”
Kvinder, der mistænkes for utroskab
11Herren sagde til Moses: 12-14„Sig til Israels folk, at hvis en mand har mistanke om, at hans kone har været ham utro, så han er jaloux, men der ikke findes vidner eller klare beviser, 15skal manden føre sin kone til præsten, og han skal medbringe et offer på et kilo rent bygmel, men ingen olivenolie eller røgelse. Det skal være et jalousioffer—dvs. mandens anmodning til Herren om, at sandheden må komme frem i lyset. 16Derpå skal præsten fremstille den mistænkte kvinde for Herren, 17mens han hælder indviet vand i en lerskål og rører lidt støv fra boligens gulv i vandet. 18Så skal han tage hendes hovedbeklædning væk og lægge jalousiofferet i hendes hænder, for at det kan blive afgjort, om der er baggrund for mandens mistanke. Imens skal præsten stille sig foran hende med krukken, der indeholder den bitre forbandelses vand. 19Da skal han sige til hende: ‚Hvis du ikke har haft seksuel omgang med andre end din mand, skal du fritages for den forbandelse, der ligger i dette vand. 20Men hvis du har vendt dig fra din mand og gjort dig selv uren ved en anden mand, 21-22vil Herren forbande dig midt iblandt dit folk, og vandet vil få din livmoder til at svulme op, og du vil ikke kunne få børn.’ Da skal kvinden svare: ‚Lad denne forbandelse ramme mig, hvis jeg er skyldig.’ 23Præsten skal skrive forbandelsen på et stykke læder, hvorefter han skal vaske den skrevne forbandelse af i det bitre vand, 24så når hun drikker vandet, vil hun samtidig drikke sig en forbandelse til. 25Præsten skal nu tage jalousiofferet ud af hendes hænder, svinge det for Herrens ansigt og bringe det hen til alteret. 26Så skal han tage en håndfuld af dette offer og hælde det på alterets ild som et røgoffer, hvorefter kvinden skal drikke vandet. 27Hvis hun virkelig har gjort sig selv uren og har været sin mand utro, skal forbandelsesvandet blive bittert i hende, så hendes livmoder svulmer op, og hun ikke længere kan få børn—og man skal bruge hendes navn som en forbandelse. 28Men hvis hun er uskyldig og ikke har været manden utro, vil der ikke ske hende noget—og hun vil fortsat være i stand til at få børn.
29-30Det er de forskrifter, der skal følges, når en mand mistænker sin kone for utroskab—og ved at følge dem vil det blive afgjort, hvem der har ret. Manden skal føre sin kone frem for Herren, og præsten skal handle efter ovennævnte forskrifter. 31Men hvis forbandelsen rammer hende, er manden uden skyld—for kvinden har fået den straf, hun har fortjent.”
1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: 3Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. 4And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
5¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty; 7Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed. 8But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. 9And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.5.9 offering: or, heave offering 10And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
11¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; 14And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: 15Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: 17And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: 18And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: 19And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:5.19 with another…: or, being in the power of thy husband: Heb. under thy husband 20But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: 21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;5.21 rot: Heb. fall 22And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. 23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: 24And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. 25Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar: 26And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. 27And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. 28And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. 29This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled; 30Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. 31Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
