Numbers 5

vayedabber Adonai el-mosheh lemor

GOD spoke to Moses, saying:

tsav et-bene yisra'el vishallekhu min-hammakhaneh kol-tsarua vekhol-zav vekhol tame lanafesh

Instruct the Israelites to remove from camp anyone with an eruption or a discharge and anyone defiled by a corpse.

mizzakhar ad-neqevah teshallekhu el-mikhuts lammakhaneh teshallekhum velo yetamme'u et-makhanehem asher ani shokhen betokham

Remove male and female alike; put them outside the camp so that they do not defile the camp of those in whose midst I dwell.

vayya'asu-khen bene yisra'el vayeshallekhu otam el-mikhuts lammakhaneh ka'asher dibber Adonai el-mosheh ken asu bene yisra'el

The Israelites did so, putting them outside the camp; as GOD had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.

vayedabber Adonai el-mosheh lemor

GOD spoke to Moses, saying:

dabber el-bene yisra'el ish o-isha ki ya'asu mikkol-khattot ha'adam limol ma'al ba-Adonai ve'ashemah hannefesh hahiv

Speak to the Israelites: When a man or woman has committed any wrong toward a fellow human being, thus breaking faith with GOD, and they have realized their guilt,

vehitvaddu et-khattatam asher asu veheshiv et-ashamo berosho vakhamishito yosef alayw venatan la'asher asham lo

they shall confess the wrong that they have done. They shall make restitution in the principal amount and add one-fifth to it, giving it to the one who was wronged.

ve'im-en la'ish go'el lehashiv ha'asham elayw ha'asham hammushav la-Adonai lakkohen millevad el hakkippurim asher yekhapper-bo alayw

If that party [is deceased and] has no kin to whom restitution can be made, the amount repaid shall go to GOD for the priest—in addition to the ram of expiation with which expiation is made on their behalf.

vekhol-terumah lekhol-qodshe vene-yisra'el asher-yaqrivu lakkohen lo yihyeh

So, too, any gift among the sacred donations that the Israelites offer shall be the priest’s.

ve'ish et-qodashayw lo yihyu ish asher-yitten lakkohen lo yihyeh

And each shall retain his sacred donations: each priest shall keep what is given to him.

vayedabber Adonai el-mosheh lemor

GOD spoke to Moses, saying:

dabber el-bene yisra'el ve'amarta alehem ish ish ki-tisteh ishto uma'alah vo ma'al

Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: Regarding anyone whose wife has gone astray and broken faith with him,

veshakhav ish otah shikhvat-zera venelam me'ene ishah venisterah vehi nitma'ah ve'ed en bah vehiv lo nitpasah

in that another man has had carnal relations with her unbeknown to her husband, and she has kept secret the fact that she defiled herself without being forced, and there is no witness against her—

ve'avar alayw ruakh-qinah veqinne et-ishto vehiv nitma'ah o-avar alayw ruakh-qinah veqinne et-ishto vehi lo nitma'ah

but a fit of jealousy has come over him and he is wrought up about the wife who has defiled herself; or if a fit of jealousy has come over him and he is wrought up about his wife although she has not defiled herself:

vehevi ha'ish et-ishto el-hakkohen vehevi et-qorbanah aleha asirit ha'efah qemakh se'orim lo-yitsoq alayw shemen velo-yitten alayw levonah ki-minkhat qena'ot hu minkhat zikkaron mazkeret avon

That man shall bring his wife to the priest. And he shall bring as an offering for her one-tenth of an ephah of barley flour. No oil shall be poured upon it and no frankincense shall be laid on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance that recalls wrongdoing.

vehiqriv otah hakkohen vehe'emidah lifne Adonai

The priest shall bring her forward and have her stand before GOD.

velaqakh hakkohen mayim qedoshim bikhli-khares umin-he'afar asher yihyeh beqarqa hammishkan yiqqakh hakkohen venatan el-hammayim

The priest shall take sacral water in an earthen vessel and, taking some of the earth that is on the floor of the Tabernacle, the priest shall put it into the water.

vehe'emid hakkohen et-ha'isha lifne Adonai ufara et-rosh ha'isha venatan al-kappeha et minkhat hazzikkaron minkhat qena'ot hiv uveyad hakkohen yihyu me hammarim hame'arerim

After he has made the woman stand before GOD, the priest shall bare the woman’s head and place upon her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is a grain offering of jealousy. And in the priest’s hands shall be the water of bitterness that induces the spell.

vehishbia otah hakkohen ve'amar el-ha'isha im-lo shakhav ish otakh ve'im-lo satit tumah takhat ishekh hinnaqi mimme hammarim hame'arerim ha'elleh

The priest shall adjure the woman, saying to her, “If no one else has lain with you, if you have not gone astray in defilement while in your husband’s household, be immune to harm from this water of bitterness that induces the spell.

ve'at ki satit takhat ishekh vekhi nitmet vayyitten ish bakh et-shekhovto mibbalade ishekh

But if you have gone astray while committed to your husband and have defiled yourself, if anyone other than your husband has had carnal relations with you”—

vehishbia hakkohen et-ha'isha bishvu'at ha'alah ve'amar hakkohen la'isha yitten Adonai otakh le'alah velishvu'ah betokh ammekh betet Adonai et-yerekhekh nofelet ve'et-bitnekh tsavah

here the priest shall administer the curse of adjuration to the woman, as the priest goes on to say to the woman—“may GOD make you a curse and an imprecation among your people, as GOD causes your thigh to sag and your belly to distend;

uva'u hammayim hame'arerim ha'elleh beme'ayikh latsbot beten velanpil yarekh ve'amerah ha'isha amen amen

may this water that induces the spell enter your body, causing the belly to distend and the thigh to sag.” And the woman shall say, “Amen, amen!”

vekhatav et-ha'alot ha'elleh hakkohen bassefer umakhah el-me hammarim

The priest shall put these curses down in writing and rub it off into the water of bitterness.

vehishqah et-ha'isha et-me hammarim hame'arerim uva'u vah hammayim hame'arerim lemarim

He is to make the woman drink the water of bitterness that induces the spell, so that the spell-inducing water may enter into her to bring on bitterness.

velaqakh hakkohen miyyad ha'isha et minkhat haqqena'ot vehenif et-hamminkhah lifne Adonai vehiqriv otah el-hammizbeakh

Then the priest shall take from the woman’s hand the grain offering of jealousy, elevate the grain offering before GOD, and present it on the altar.

veqamats hakkohen min-hamminkhah et-azkaratah vehiqtir hammizbekhah ve'akhar yashqeh et-ha'isha et-hammayim

The priest shall scoop out of the grain offering a token part of it and turn it into smoke on the altar. Last, he shall make the woman drink the water.

vehishqah et-hammayim vehayetah im-nitme'ah vattimol ma'al be'ishah uva'u vah hammayim hame'arerim lemarim vetsavetah vitnah venafelah yerekhah vehayetah ha'isha le'alah beqerev ammah

Once he has made her drink the water—if she has defiled herself by breaking faith with her husband, the spell-inducing water shall enter into her to bring on bitterness, so that her belly shall distend and her thigh shall sag; and the woman shall become a curse among her people.

ve'im-lo nitme'ah ha'isha utehorah hiv veniqqetah venizre'ah zara

But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she shall be unharmed and able to retain seed.

zot torat haqqena'ot asher tisteh isha takhat ishah venitma'ah

This is the ritual in cases of jealousy, when a woman goes astray while in her husband’s household and defiles herself,

o ish asher ta'avor alayw ruakh qinah veqinne et-ishto vehe'emid et-ha'isha lifne Adonai ve'asah lah hakkohen et kol-hattorah hazzot

or when a man, overtaken by a fit of jealousy, is wrought up over his wife: the woman shall be made to stand before GOD and the priest shall carry out all this ritual with her.

veniqqah ha'ish me'avon veha'isha hahiv tissa et-avonah

The man shall be clear of guilt; but that woman shall suffer for her guilt.