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Verse Numbers 5:17. _HOLY WATER_] Water out of the laver, called
_holy_ because consecrated to sacred uses. This is the most ancient
case of the trial by _ordeal_. Numbers 5:31, Numbers 5:31....
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The trial of jealousy. Since the crime of adultery is especially
defiling and destructive of the very foundations of social order, the
whole subject is dealt with at a length proportionate to its
impo...
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4. THE SANCTIFICATION OF THE CAMP AND THE NAZARITE
CHAPTER 5
_ 1. Concerning the leper, the issue and defilement of the dead
(Numbers 5:1)_
2. Concerning restitution (Numbers 5:5)
3. Concerning th...
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AN ORDEAL IN CASES OF JEALOUSY. A married woman suspected of
unfaithfulness is, in the absence of evidence, to be subjected to an
ordeal by being made to drink holy water with which dust from the
floo...
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HOLY. separated: taken from the laver. See note on Exodus 3:5.
TABERNACLE. Hebrew. _mishkan._ App-40....
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The Ordeal of Jealousy.
Though in its present form a late priestly composition this section
is evidently based upon very ancient material. Its contents find no
parallel in the other Pentateuchal code...
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_holy water_ A unique expression. The writer may have thought that the
water should be taken from the sacred laver, which, according to a
late stratum of P, stood in the court. LXX., however, has ὕδωρ...
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AND THE PRIEST, SHALL BRING HER NEAR, AND SET HER, &C.— Read, _shall
bring it near, and set it,_ &c. see Numbers 5:18. The _holy water,_ in
the next verse, means the water from the laver, which is cal...
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C. THE ORDEAL OF JEALOUSY vv. 11-31
TEXT
Numbers 5:11. 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 trespas...
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_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:_
The priest shall take holy water...
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VARIOUS CEREMONIAL LAWS
1-4. On the seclusion of lepers and unclean persons, see Leviticus
13-15.
5-10. On the law of restitution, see Leviticus 5:14 to Leviticus 6:7,
to which the present passage is...
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HOLY WATER] This is the only place where this phrase is found, and it
is not explained. Water from the laver is probably meant: see Exodus
30:17....
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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS
IN THE DESERT
NUMBERS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 5
*UNCLEAN PEOPLE – NUMBERS 5:1-4
V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses. V2-3 He told Moses to speak to the
*Israeli
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וְ לָקַ֧ח הַ כֹּהֵ֛ן מַ֥יִם
קְדֹשִׁ֖ים בִּ
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DEFILEMENT AND PURGATION
Numbers 5:1
THE separation of Israel as a people belonging to Jehovah proceeded on
ideas of holiness which excluded from privilege many of the Hebrews
themselves. The law did...
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3. THE WATER OF JEALOUSY
Numbers 5:11.
The long and remarkable statute regarding the water of jealousy seems
to have been interposed to prevent, by means of an ordeal, that cruel
practice of perempto...
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This section is devoted to arrangements emphasizing the necessity for
the purity of the camp on the eve of the coming of the people into the
land. All that were unclean were put outside the camp This...
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And the priest shall take (h) 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:
(h) Which also is called the...
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These verses contain a very circumstantial account, of the law of
jealousy. The process of trial is very solemn and awful; and the
event, suited to the nature of the dispensation, under which the
chur...
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It is impossible to look at this book ever so cursorily without
feeling the difference of the atmosphere from that of Leviticus. And
this is so much the more striking because it cannot be fairly doubt...
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Let us pursue the study of the book. Chapter 5 presents three things,
in connection with the purity of the camp, looked at as the
dwelling-place of God, and in connection with our pilgrim passage
thro...
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AND THE PRIEST SHALL TAKE HOLY WATER,.... Out of the laver, as the
Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi and Aben Ezra:
IN AN EARTHEN VESSEL; which held half a log, and that was but a
quarte...
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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:
Ver. 17. _Holy water,_] _i.e., _...
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1 The vncleane are remoued out of the campe.
5 Restitution is to be made in trespasses.
11 The triall of Iealousie.
1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying,
2 Commaund the children of Israel, that...
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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, to remind those witnessing the act o...
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THE TRIAL OF JEALOUSY...
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DEFILEMENT CALLING FOR ISOLATION
(vs.1-4)
The principle of 1 Corinthians 5:6, "a little leaven leavens the whole
lump" was just as true in the Old Testament as in the new. However,
the defilement ofN...
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11-31 This law would make the women of Israel watch against giving
cause for suspicion. On the other hand, it would hinder the cruel
treatment such suspicions might occasion. It would also hinder the...
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HOLY WATER; either water out of the holy laver, EXODUS 30:18, or
rather the water of purification appointed for such kind of uses,
NUMBERS 19:9. This was used, that if she were guilty, she might be
af...
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''And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 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: both male an...
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Numbers 5:17 priest H3548 take H3947 (H8804) holy H6918 water H4325
earthen H2789 vessel H3627 H3548 take...
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THE WOMAN IS TO BE BROUGHT NEAR BEFORE YAHWEH AND THE PRIEST THEN
MAKES THE WATER OF TESTING (NUMBERS 5:16)
Numbers 5:16
‘And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh.'
The priest...
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CONTENTS: Defilement of the camp.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: The purity of the church must be as carefully guarded as
the order of it and it is for the edification of it that those who are...
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Numbers 5:2. _Defiled by the dead._ They were unclean seven days. The
whole of Shem's race in India, keep this custom to the present day.
Numbers 5:6. _Any sin that men commit;_ through ignorance, or...
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_If any man’s wife go aside._
THE TRIAL OF THE SUSPECTED WIFE
I. Confidence in conjugal relations is of great importance.
“Suspicion,” says Bp. Babington, “is the cut-throat and poison
of all love a...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 5:1__ The concept of uncleanness is
important in the Bible, and it is not what most people assume the term
means (for a discussion of the term, see Introduction to Leviticus;
s...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 5:11 The ritual described here is designed
to distinguish between actual adultery (vv. Numbers 5:12) and
unwarranted suspicion (v....
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THE EXCLUSION OF THE UNCLEAN
(_Numbers 5:1_)
“Now that the nation was regularly organised, the sacred tribe
dedicated, and the sanctuary with the tokens of God’s more immediate
Presence provided with...
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EXPOSITION
THE TRIAL OF JEALOUSY (Numbers 5:11-4).
NUMBERS 5:12
IF ANY MAN'S WIFE … COMMIT A TRESPASS AGAINST HIM. The adultery of
the wife is here regarded only from a social point of vie
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Now in chapter five they are told to cleanse the camp by putting out
every leper and those that have any kind of an issue from their body,
who is and those that have been defied, defiled by touching a...
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Exodus 30:18; Jeremiah 17:13; Job 2:12; John 8:6; John 8:8;...
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Holy water — Water of purification appointed for such uses. This was
used, that if she were guilty, she might be afraid to add profaneness
to her other crime. An earthen vessel — Because, after this u...
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Doesn’t the Bible condone a superstition here?
PROBLEM: Paul condemns “old wives’ fables” (1 Timothy 4:7). But,
Moses here commands the practice of a superstition that has no basis
in science. The acc...