The Skeptics Annotated Bible (134 page)

11 And
the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

(5.11)
“The LORD spake unto Moses, saying,”

12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him
,

(5.12)
“If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,”

13 And 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;

14
And 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:

(5.14)
“And the spirit of jealousy come upon him … and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him … and she be not defiled:”

15
Then 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.

(5.15)
“Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest,”

16
And the priest shall
bring her near, and
set her before the LORD
:

(5.16)
“And the priest shall … set her before the LORD.”

17 And 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:

18 And 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:

(5.18)
“And the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse.”

19
And 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)
“And the priest shall … say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee … be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse.”

20
But 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:

(5.20)
“But if … some man have lain with thee beside thine husband,”

21 Then 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)
“The LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell.”

22
And 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.

(5.22)
“And 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.”

23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

24
And 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.

(5.24)
“And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse.”

25 Then 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:

26 And 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.

27 And
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.

(5.27)
“When he hath made her to drink the water … if she be defiled … the water that causeth the curse shall … become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.”
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28 And
if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

(5.28)
“If the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.”

29
This is the law of jealousies,
when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

(5.29)
“This is the law of jealousies,”

30 Or
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.

(5.30)
“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.”

31
Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

(5.31)
“Then shall the he man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.”

6
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:

3
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink
, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

(6.3)
“He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink.”
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4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

5 All the days of the vow of his separation
there shall no razor come upon his head
: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

(6.5)
“There shall no razor come upon his head.”
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6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.

7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.

9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

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10 And on the eighth day
he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest
, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

(6.10)
“He shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest,”

11 And
the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering
, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.

(6.11)
“The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.”

12 And
he
shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and
shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering
: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

(6.12)
“He … shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering.”

13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

14 And
he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,

(6.14)
“He shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings.”

15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.

16 And
the priest shall
bring them before the LORD, and shall
offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

(6.16)
“The priest shall … offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.”

17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread:
the priest shall offer also his meat offering
, and his drink offering.

(6.17)
“The priest shall offer also his meat offering.”

18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.