1 Or, with another instead of thy husband See Ezek. xxiii. 5, Rom. vii. 2. And the 16 bringing iniquity to remembrance. priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD and the priest shall take holy water 17 in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: and the priest shall 18 set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy: and the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that causeth the curse: and the priest shall 19 cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman, If no man have lien with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, 'being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse: but if thou 20 hast gone aside, 'being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lien with thee besides thine husband: then the 21 priest shall cause the woman to swear with the 2 Or, adjura 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 fall away, and thy belly to swell; and this water that causeth the 22 curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to fall away and the woman shall say, Amen, Amen. And the 23 priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness and he shall make the woman drink 24 the water of bitterness that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter. And the 25 priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before the LORD, and bring it tion 27 26 unto the altar: and the priest shall take an handful of the meal offering, as the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a 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 fall away: and the 28 woman shall be a curse among her people. And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, 'being under 1Or, goeth 30 her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled; or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he be jealous over his wife; then shall he set the woman before the LORD, and the 31 priest shall execute upon her all this law. And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity. 29 6 I 2 1 aside with another instead of her husband consecrated, 3 secrate And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to 'separate 2 That is, one 3 himself unto the LORD: he shall separate him- separated or self from wine and strong drink; he shall drink Or, conno vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor 4 eat fresh grapes or dried. All the days of his 'separation shall he eat nothing that is made of Or, consecra the grape-vine, from the kernels even to the Or, Nazirite 5 husk. All the days of his vow of separation ship 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, he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow 6 long. All the days that he separateth himself 4 tion unto the LORD he shall not come near to a dead body. He shall not make himself unclean for 7 his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because his separation unto God is upon his head. All the days 8 of his separation he is holy unto the LORD. And if any man die very suddenly beside him, 9 and he defile the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. And on the eighth day he shall bring two 10 turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting: and the 11 priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, for that he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day. And he shall separate unto the LORD the days 12 of his separation, and shall bring a he-lamb of the first year for a guilt offering: but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled. And this is the law of the Nazirite, when 13 the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tent of meeting and he shall offer his oblation unto 14 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, and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine 15 flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings. And the priest shall pre- 16 sent them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: and he shall 17 offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also the meal offering thereof, and the drink offering thereof. 18 And the Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under 19 the sacrifice of peace offerings. offerings. And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he hath shaven the 20 head of his separation and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD; this is holy for the priest, together with the wave breast and heave 'thigh and after 1Or, shoulder 21 that the Nazirite may drink wine. This is the law of the Nazirite who voweth, and of his oblation unto the LORD for his separation, beside that which he is able to get: according to his vow which he voweth, so he must do after the law of his separation. 22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel; ye shall say unto them, 24 25 26 27 7 I The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. So shall they put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them. And it came to pass on the day that Moses had made an end of setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, and all the furniture thereof, and the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them and 2 sanctified them; that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, offered; these were the princes of the tribes, these are they that were over them that were numbered: and 3 they brought their oblation before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the tabernacle. And the LORD spake unto Moses, 4 saying, Take it of them, that they may be to do 5 the service of the tent of meeting; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service. And Moses took the 6 wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites. Two wagons and four oxen he gave 7 unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service and four wagons and eight oxen he 8 gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. But unto the sons of 9 Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonged unto them; they bare it upon their shoulders. And the princes offered 10 Or, the dedic for the dedication of the altar in the day that ation-gift it was anointed, even the princes offered their oblation before the altar. And the LORD said 11 unto Moses, They shall offer their oblation, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar. II And he that offered his oblation the first day 12 was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah and his oblation was one silver 13 charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering; one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of 14 incense; one young bullock, one ram, one he- 15 lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering; one 16 |