numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
[45] These be those that
were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to
the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
[46] All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom
Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
[47]
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the
ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,
[48] Even those that were
numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
[49] According to the commandment
of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according
to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Num.5
[1] 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