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Fjórða bók Móse 5
Icelandic Bible
Fjórða bók Móse 5
Icelandic Bible
5 Drottinn talaði við Móse og sagði:
2 "Bjóð þú Ísraelsmönnum að láta burt fara úr herbúðunum alla menn líkþráa og alla, er rennsli hafa, svo og alla þá, er saurgaðir eru af líki.
3 Skuluð þér láta burt fara bæði karla og konur, þér skuluð láta þá fara út fyrir herbúðirnar, svo að þeir saurgi ekki herbúðir sínar, með því að ég bý á meðal þeirra."
4 Og Ísraelsmenn gjörðu svo og létu þá fara út fyrir herbúðirnar. Eins og Drottinn hafði boðið Móse, svo gjörðu Ísraelsmenn.
5 Drottinn talaði við Móse og sagði: "Tala þú til Ísraelsmanna:
6 Þá er karl eða kona drýgir einhverja þá synd, er menn hendir, með því að sýna sviksemi gegn Drottni, og sá hinn sami verður sekur,
7 þá skulu þau játa synd sína, er þau hafa drýgt, og bæta skulu þau sekt sína fullu verði og gjalda fimmtungi meira og greiða það þeim, er þau hafa orðið sek við.
8 En eigi maðurinn engan nákominn ættingja, er sektin verði greidd, þá skal sektin, er greiða skal, heyra Drottni og falla undir prest, auk friðþægingarhrútsins, sem friðþægt er með fyrir þau.
9 Sérhver fórnargjöf af öllum helgigjöfum Ísraelsmanna, sem þeir færa prestinum, skal vera hans eign,
10 og það sem sérhver helgar, skal vera hans eign. Það sem einhver gefur prestinum, skal vera hans eign."
11 Drottinn talaði við Móse og sagði:
12 "Tala þú til Ísraelsmanna og seg við þá: Nú gjörist kona marglát og reynist ótrú manni sínum.
13 Annar maður hefir samræði við hana, en maður hennar veit eigi af. Hún verður eigi uppvís að og hefir þó saurgað sig, og engin vitni eru mót henni og hún er eigi að því staðin.
14 En yfir manninn kemur afbrýðisandi, svo að hann verður hræddur um konu sína, og hún hefir saurgað sig. Eða afbrýðisandi kemur yfir mann, og hann verður hræddur um konu sína, þótt hún hafi eigi saurgað sig.
15 Þá fari maðurinn með konu sína til prestsins og færi honum fórnargjöfina fyrir hana: tíunda part úr efu af byggmjöli. Eigi skal hann hella yfir það olíu né leggja reykelsiskvoðu ofan á það, því að það er afbrýðismatfórn, minningarmatfórn, sem minnir á misgjörð.
16 Presturinn skal taka konuna og leiða hana fram fyrir Drottin.
17 Og prestur skal taka heilagt vatn í leirker, og prestur skal taka mold af gólfi búðarinnar og láta í vatnið.
18 Og prestur skal leiða konuna fram fyrir Drottin og leysa hár konunnar og fá henni í hendur minningarmatfórnina _ það er afbrýðismatfórn. En á beiskjuvatninu, er bölvan veldur, skal presturinn halda.
19 Prestur skal særa hana og segja við konuna: ,Hafi enginn maður hjá þér legið og hafir þú eigi saurgað þig með lauslæti í hjúskap þínum, þá verði þetta beiskjuvatn, sem bölvan veldur, þér ósaknæmt.
20 En hafir þú verið lauslát í hjúskapnum og hafir þú saurgast og einhver annar en maður þinn hefir haft samræði við þig,`
21 þá skal prestur láta konuna vinna bölvunarsæri, og prestur skal segja við konuna: ,Drottinn gjöri þig að bölvan og að særi meðal fólks þíns, er Drottinn lætur lendar þínar hjaðna og kvið þinn þrútna.
22 Og vatn þetta, er bölvan veldur, skal fara í innýfli þín, svo að kviðurinn þrútni og lendarnar hjaðni.` Og konan skal segja: ,Amen, amen!`
23 Síðan skal prestur rita formælingu þessa í bók og strjúka hana út í beiskjuvatnið,
24 og hann skal láta konuna drekka beiskjuvatnið, er bölvan veldur, svo að vatnið, sem bölvan veldur, fari ofan í hana og verði að beiskju.
25 Og presturinn skal taka við afbrýðismatfórninni úr hendi konunnar, og hann skal veifa matfórninni frammi fyrir Drottni og bera hana á altarið.
26 Og presturinn skal taka hnefafylli af matfórninni sem ilmhluta hennar og brenna á altarinu. Síðan skal hann láta konuna drekka vatnið.
27 Og þegar hann hefir látið hana drekka vatnið, þá skal svo fara, að hafi hún saurgað sig og verið manni sínum ótrú, þá skal vatnið, er bölvan veldur, fara ofan í hana og verða að beiskju, og kviður hennar þrútna og lendar hennar hjaðna, og konan skal verða að bölvan meðal fólks síns.
28 En hafi konan ekki saurgað sig og sé hún hrein, þá skal það ekki saka hana, og hún mun geta fengið getnað."
29 Þetta eru lögin um afbrýðisemi, þegar gift kona gjörist marglát og saurgar sig
30 eða þegar afbrýðisandi kemur yfir mann og hann verður hræddur um konu sína, þá skal hann leiða konuna fram fyrir Drottin, og prestur skal með hana fara í alla staði eftir lögum þessum.
31 Maðurinn skal vera sýkn saka, en konan skal bera sekt sína.
Numbers 5
New International Version
Numbers 5
New International Version
The Purity of the Camp
5 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease[a](A) or a discharge(B) of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean(C) because of a dead body.(D) 3 Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.(E)” 4 The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the Lord had instructed Moses.
Restitution for Wrongs
5 The Lord said to Moses, 6 “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any man or woman who wrongs another in any way[b] and so is unfaithful(F) to the Lord is guilty(G) 7 and must confess(H) the sin they have committed. They must make full restitution(I) for the wrong they have done, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the person they have wronged. 8 But if that person has no close relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the Lord and must be given to the priest, along with the ram(J) with which atonement is made for the wrongdoer.(K) 9 All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.(L) 10 Sacred things belong to their owners, but what they give to the priest will belong to the priest.(M)’”
The Test for an Unfaithful Wife
11 Then the Lord said to Moses, 12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray(N) and is unfaithful to him 13 so that another man has sexual relations with her,(O) and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act), 14 and if feelings of jealousy(P) come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure— 15 then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[c](Q) of barley flour(R) on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy,(S) a reminder-offering(T) to draw attention to wrongdoing.
16 “‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord. 17 Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. 18 After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair(U) and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy,(V) while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.(W) 19 Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray(X) and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse(Y) not harm you. 20 But if you have gone astray(Z) while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse(AA)—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[d] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water(AB) that brings a curse(AC) enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”
“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.(AD)”
23 “‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll(AE) and then wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her. 25 The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord(AF) and bring it to the altar. 26 The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial[e] offering(AG) and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water. 27 If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.(AH) 28 If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.
29 “‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray(AI) and makes herself impure while married to her husband, 30 or when feelings of jealousy(AJ) come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the Lord and is to apply this entire law to her. 31 The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences(AK) of her sin.’”
Footnotes
- Numbers 5:2 The Hebrew word for defiling skin disease, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
- Numbers 5:6 Or woman who commits any wrong common to mankind
- Numbers 5:15 That is, probably about 3 1/2 pounds or about 1.6 kilograms
- Numbers 5:21 That is, may he cause your name to be used in cursing (see Jer. 29:22); or, may others see that you are cursed; similarly in verse 27.
- Numbers 5:26 Or representative
Numbers 5
King James Version
Numbers 5
King James Version
5 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the Lord spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
5 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the Lord, and that person be guilty;
7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the Lord, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
11 And 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,
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:
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.
16 And the priest shall bring her near, and 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:
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:
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:
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;
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.
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.
28 And 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;
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.
31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
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