ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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;

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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:

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

²⁸ And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

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

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁴ And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁵ And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁸ And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

ASVBasic EnglishDarbyKJVWEBYLT

⁹ And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.