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Numbers 5:1 (show verse)
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 5:2 (show verse)
"Command the {Israelites}: they must send everyone from the camp who is afflicted with a rash, everyone with a fluid discharge, and everyone unclean through [contact with] a corpse.
Church of israel » Members of » Separated from, while unclean
The Dead » Defiled » Camp » Removed
Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Having an issue, &c
Disease » Remedies » Quarantine
Disease » Instances of » Of the sexual organs
Leprosy » Law concerning
Leprosy » Isolation of lepers
Leprosy » Those afflicted with » Separated from intercourse with others
Sanitation » Quarantine
The Dead » Defiled » Camp » Removed
Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Having an issue, &c
Disease » Remedies » Quarantine
Disease » Instances of » Of the sexual organs
Leprosy » Law concerning
Leprosy » Isolation of lepers
Leprosy » Those afflicted with » Separated from intercourse with others
Sanitation » Quarantine
Numbers 5:3 (show verse)
You will send away {both male and female}; you will send them {outside the camp}. They must not make unclean their camps where I [am] dwelling in their midst."
Numbers 5:4 (show verse)
So the {Israelites} did so. They sent them away {outside the camp}; just as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the {Israelites}.
Numbers 5:5 (show verse)
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 5:6 (show verse)
"Speak to the {Israelites}: 'When a man or woman {commits} any of the sins of humankind by acting unfaithfully, [it is] a sin against Yahweh, and that person will be guilty;
Numbers 5:7 (show verse)
they will confess their sin that they did and will make restitution [for] their guilt by adding a fifth {to it} and giving [it] {to whomever was wronged}.
Numbers 5:8 (show verse)
But if the man does not have a redeemer to make restitution to him for the reparation, the reparation is to be given to Yahweh for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.
Numbers 5:9 (show verse)
And every contribution of all the holy objects of the {Israelites} that they bring to the priest for him will be his.
Numbers 5:10 (show verse)
The holy objects of a man will be for him; whatever he gives to the priest will be for him.'"
Numbers 5:11 (show verse)
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 5:12 (show verse)
"Speak to the {Israelites} and say to them, 'If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully to him,
Numbers 5:13 (show verse)
and a man sleeps with her and ejaculates and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is concealed, although she is defiled, and there is no witness against her and she was not caught,
Numbers 5:14 (show verse)
if a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous [of] his wife and she is defiled; or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous [of] his wife but she is not defiled,
Numbers 5:15 (show verse)
he will bring his wife to the priest. And he will bring her offering for her, one-tenth of an ephah of flour. He will not pour oil on it, and he will not put frankincense on it because [it is] a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembering, a reminding of guilt.
Agriculture » Products of » Barley
Barley » Used in offerings
Frankincense » In making an offering of memorial
Grain » Barley
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Measure » An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half
Meat offerings » Consisted of » Barley meal
Meat offerings » Of jealousy, without oil or incense
Offerings » Different kinds of » Jealousy
Priest » The function he served was superior to that of other priests » Judicial
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
priests » Services of » Deciding in cases of jealousy
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Barley » Used in offerings
Frankincense » In making an offering of memorial
Grain » Barley
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Measure » An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half
Meat offerings » Consisted of » Barley meal
Meat offerings » Of jealousy, without oil or incense
Offerings » Different kinds of » Jealousy
Priest » The function he served was superior to that of other priests » Judicial
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
priests » Services of » Deciding in cases of jealousy
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Numbers 5:16 (show verse)
" 'Then the priest will bring her near and present her {before} Yahweh;
Numbers 5:17 (show verse)
the priest will take holy waters in a clay vessel, and from the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and the priest will put [it] into the waters.
Numbers 5:18 (show verse)
And the priest will present the woman {before} Yahweh, and he will uncover the head of the woman; he will then put in her hands the grain offering of the remembering--[which is] the grain offering of jealousy--and in the hand of the priest will be the waters of bitterness that brings a curse.
Numbers 5:19 (show verse)
Then the priest will make her swear an oath, and he will say to the woman, "If a man has not slept with you, and if you have not had an impurity affair under your husband, go unpunished from the waters of bitterness that brings this curse.
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Oaths » Permitted in bearing witness
Oaths » Used for » Deciding controversies in courts of law
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Witness » Qualified by oath
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Oaths » Permitted in bearing witness
Oaths » Used for » Deciding controversies in courts of law
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Witness » Qualified by oath
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Numbers 5:20 (show verse)
But if you have had an affair under your husband, and if you are defiled and a man other than your husband had intercourse with you,"
Numbers 5:21 (show verse)
the priest will make the woman swear an oath of the sworn oath of the curse, the priest will say to the woman, "May Yahweh give you a curse and a sworn oath in the midst of your people with Yahweh making your hip fall away and your stomach swollen;
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Witness » Qualified by oath
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Witness » Qualified by oath
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Numbers 5:22 (show verse)
and these waters that bring a curse will go into your intestines to cause [your] womb to swell and to make [your] hip fall away." And the women will say, "Amen. Amen."
Amen » A word used to reenforce a statement
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Numbers 5:23 (show verse)
" 'And the priests will write these curses on the scroll, and he will wipe [them] off into the waters of the bitterness.
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Books » Erasures in, alluded to
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Books » Erasures in, alluded to
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Numbers 5:24 (show verse)
He will make the woman drink the waters of the bitterness that brings a curse, and the waters of bitterness that bring a curse will go into her.
Numbers 5:25 (show verse)
The priest will take the grain offering of jealousy from the hand of the woman, and he will wave the grain offering {before Yahweh}, and he will present it to the altar;
Bitter water » Ceremonial water » Used » By priests
Dedication » Personal of offerings » Wave
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Offerings » Wave
Offerings » Wave » Ordinances concerning
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wave-offering » Consisted of » The jealousy offering
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Dedication » Personal of offerings » Wave
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Offerings » Wave
Offerings » Wave » Ordinances concerning
Priest » Duties of » To act as magistrates
Wave-offering » Consisted of » The jealousy offering
Wife » Unfaithful
Woman » Unfaithfulness of, when married found out by the waters of jealousy
Women » charted » Infidelity
Numbers 5:26 (show verse)
the priest will grasp her memorial offering from the grain offering, and he will turn [it] into smoke [on] the altar, and afterward he will make the woman drink the waters.
Numbers 5:27 (show verse)
When he has made her drink the waters, it will come about, if she has defiled herself and acted unfaithfully to her husband and the waters of bitterness that bring a curse go into her and her stomach swells and her hip falls away, the woman will be as a curse in the midst of her people.
Numbers 5:28 (show verse)
And if the woman is not defiled, and she [is] pure, she will go unpunished and be able to conceive children.
Numbers 5:29 (show verse)
" 'This [is] the regulation of jealousy, when a woman has an affair under her husband and she is defiled,
Numbers 5:30 (show verse)
or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous [of] his wife, he will present the woman {before Yahweh},and the priest will do to her all of this law.
Numbers 5:31 (show verse)
The man will go unpunished from guilt, and the woman, she will bear her guilt.'"