SELF-INCRIMINATION

Passages on this topic · 27

• Numbers 5:11

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 5:12

  “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,

• Numbers 5:13

  and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;

• Numbers 5:14

  and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn’t defiled:

• Numbers 5:15

  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.

• Numbers 5:16

  The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh;

• Numbers 5:17

  and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.

• Numbers 5:18

  The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

• Numbers 5:19

  The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

• Numbers 5:20

  But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:”

• Numbers 5:21

  then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

• Numbers 5:22

  and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

• Numbers 5:23

  “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

• Numbers 5:24

  He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

• Numbers 5:25

  The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.

• Numbers 5:26

  The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

• Numbers 5:27

  When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.

• Joshua 7:19

  Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

• Joshua 7:20

  Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

• Joshua 7:21

  When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

• Joshua 7:22

  So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.

• Joshua 7:23

  They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.

• Joshua 7:24

  Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

• Joshua 7:25

  Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

• 1 Kings 8:31

  “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

• 1 Kings 8:32

  then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

• Acts 22:24

  the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.