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Polyglot Bible: Numbers: Numbers 5

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This is a synoptic biblical text presenting Numbers chapter 5 in three parallel columns: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers), the Septuagint (Greek), and the Masoretic Hebrew (Tanakh). The passage contains three distinct legal ordinances delivered by God to Moses: first, the exclusion of ritually impure individuals (lepers, those with discharges, the corpse-defiled) from the Israelite camp; second, the requirement that those who sin against others confess, make full restitution plus a fifth, and if no injured party can be found, pay the priest. The bulk of the chapter (verses 11–31) details the *sotah* ritual — an ordeal for a wife suspected of adultery — in which a priest administers "bitter water" mixed with tabernacle dust and washed curses: if guilty, the water causes her belly to swell and thigh to waste; if innocent, she goes free and will conceive. The presentation's most distinctive feature is its purely documentary, multi-version format with no commentary, targeting readers interested in comparative textual analysis of the Hebrew Bible across its major ancient witnesses. It would primarily interest scholars, translators, or serious students examining textual variants among the Masoretic Text, LXX, and early modern English translation traditions.

Polyglot Bible: Numbers: Numbers 5

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