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And it came to pass that Moses passed judgment on Israel saying:
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If thou buy a Hebrew servant (for Israel shall have no slaves, YHVH hath not freed us to put our kin into bondage), six years they shall serve; and in the seventh they shall go out free for nothing.
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And if they came in by themselves, then they shall go out by themselves; if they be married, then the spouse of them shall go out with them.
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If the lord hath given them a spouse, and these have borne sons or daughters, then they and all their children shall go out together.
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And if the servant shall say plainly: I love my master; my spouse and our children, we shall not go out freea, then the master shall bring them unto the judges;
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And the judges shall set their wages, that they be fair and generous; and they shall serve their lord for so long as their wages be met.
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¶ And if a man should sella his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do, that she not be forced to prostitute herself.
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If she please not her master, who hath promised to keep her to himselfa, then shall he let her be given to another:
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But ye shall not sell her into a strange nation; no one shall have no power to do this, seeing they hath dealt deceitfullya with her, that she not be cast out of the Covenant.
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And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the mannera of daughters.
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And if a man should take her unto himself to wife, and he take him anothera wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish.
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And if she refuseth these three unto her, then shall she go out free with a dowrya.
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¶ If a man entice a young woman that is not betrothed and lie with her, but doth not force himself upon her, then he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
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If her father utterly refuseth to give her unto him, he shall pay moneya according to the dowry of virginsb.
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¶ If a man takest a wife, thou shalt take such a one as thou lovest, and who loveth thee, and whom thou mayest lawfully marry and thou shalt go before the High Priest, or the Chief Elder where thou dwellest, or the Priest;
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And by him shall ye be joined in marriage, that these may be one in life, and in life everlasting; and that the fruit of thy loins might be with thee everlasting; and ye shall be united; and ye shall give one another thy honor.
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¶ If the wife of any man should go aside and commit a trespass against him, 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 witnesses against her, neither she be taken with the manner,
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And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be with child, or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not with child,
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Then shall the man bring his wife unto the Priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a part of barley meal; and the Priest 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.
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And the Priest shall bring her unto the Priestess and set the wife before YHVH;
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And the Priestess shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the Priestess shall take and put it into the water;
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And the Priestess shall set the wife before YHVH, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offeringa; and the Priestess shall have in her hand the bitter water that causeth the curse.
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And the Priestess shall charge her by an oath and say unto the wife: 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;
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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,
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YHVH make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when YHVH doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
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And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell and thy thigh to rot.
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And the wife shall say: So Mote it Be; Amena.
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And the Priestess shall write these curses in a book, and she shall blot them out with the bitter water;
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And she 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.
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Then the Priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before YHVH, and offer it upon the altar;
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And the Priestess shall take a handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
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And when the Priestess hath made the wife 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 bittera, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot; and the woman shall be a curseb among her people.
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And if the wife be not defiled but be clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive seeda.
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And if another man has lain with her, then that man shall be found dead in his bed the next morning; and this shall be a sign unto you of his sin.
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This is the Toraha of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband and is defiled,
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Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife and shall set the woman before YHVH, and the Priestess of Miriam shall execute upon her all this law.
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And if the cursea should not be found in the wife, and she be innocent, then the husband shall be guilty;
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And he shall offer up a sacrifice a sin offeringa unto YHVH by way of the Priest, and he shall ask his wife for forgiveness for his trespass against her.