Douay Rheims Original ↷
Numbers 5 📜 📕 ↷
Adultery Test
11 And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:📜💬📚
12 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man, whose wife erreth, and contemning her husband,📜💬📚
13 hath slept with an other man, and her husband could not find it, but the adultery is secret, and can not be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adulterous fact:📜💬📚
14 if the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, which either is polluted or is charged with false suspicion,📜💬📚
15 he shall bring her to the Priest, and shall offer an oblation for her, the tenth part of a satum of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon, nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery.📜💬📚
16 The Priest therefore shall offer it, & set it before the Lord.📜💬📚
17 And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little gravel of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.📜💬📚
18 And when the woman shall stand in the sight of the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and shall put upon her hands the sacrifice of recordation, and the oblation of jealousy: and himself shall hold the most bitter waters, whereon he heaped curses with execration,📜💬📚
19 and he shall adjure her, and shall say: If an other man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not polluted by forsaking thy husband's bed, these most bitter waters shall not hurt thee, whereupon I have heaped curses.📜💬📚
20 But if thou hast declined from thy husband, & art polluted, and hast lien with an other man,📜💬📚
21 thou shalt be subject to these maledictions: Our Lord give thee for a malediction, and an example of all among his people: make he thy thigh to rot, and belly swelling burst asunder.📜💬📚
22 The cursed water enter into thy belly, and thy womb being swollen let thy thigh rot. And the woman shall answer, Amen, amen.📜💬📚
23 And the Priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash them out with the most bitter waters, whereupon he heaped the curses,📜💬📚
24 and he shall give them her to drink. Which when she hath drunk up,📜💬📚
25 the Priest shall take of her hand the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall elevate it before the Lord, and shall put it upon the altar: yet so notwithstanding that first📜💬📚
26 he take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered, & burn it upon the altar: and so give the most bitter waters to the woman to drink.📜💬📚
27 Which when she hath drunk, if she be polluted, and by contempt of her husband guilty of adultery, the waters of malediction shall go through her, and her belly being puft up her thigh shall rot withal: and the woman shall be for a malediction, and an example to all the people.📜💬📚
28 But if she be not polluted, she shall be blameless, and shall bear children.📜💬📚
29 This is the law of jealousy. If the woman decline from her husband, and if she be polluted,📜💬📚
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