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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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BECOME BITTER. turn to bitterness....
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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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and become _bitter_ lit. -for bitterness," i.e. proving injurious....
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AND BECOME BITTER— _And become_ is not in the Hebrew: the word is
למרים _lemarim,—in amaritudinem,—for bitterness;_ and by a
comparison of the 27th verse, it appears that this alteration in the
phrase...
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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 WRITE THESE CURSES IN A BOOK, AND HE SHALL BLOT
THEM OUT WITH THE BITTER WATER:_
Write these curses in a book. The imprecations, along with her name,
were inscribed in some kind...
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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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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 הִשְׁקָה֙ אֶת ־הָ֣ אִשָּׁ֔ה אֶת
־מֵ֥י
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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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Up. Hebrew, "and the water, which causeth the malediction, shall enter
into her, bitter." According to Josephus, the jealous husband threw
first a handful of the gomer of barley flour, upon the altar,...
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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 HE SHALL CAUSE THE WOMAN TO DRINK THE BITTER WATER THAT CAUSETH
THE CURSE,..... Having the curse imprecated upon herself, if guilty,
scraped into it; and this she was obliged to drink, whether she...
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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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THE TRIAL OF JEALOUSY...
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and he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth
the curse, that is, after the offering of the sacrifice; AND THE WATER
THAT CAUSETH THE CURSE SHALL ENTER INTO HER AND BECOME BITTER...
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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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TO DRINK, to wit, after the jealousy-offering was offered, as is
affirmed, NUMBERS 5:26....
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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 5:24 woman H802 drink H8248 (H8689) bitter H4751 water H4325
curse H779 (H8764) water H4325 curse...
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THE WOMAN IS TO BE MADE TO DRINK OF THE WATER OF TESTING BEFORE YAHWEH
(NUMBERS 5:23).
Numbers 5:23
‘And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall
blot them out into the water of b...
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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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Malachi 3:5; Zechariah 5:3; Zechariah 5:4...
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To drink — That is, after the jealousy — offering was offered....