Thematic Bible
Numbers 5:1 (show verse)
The Lord instructed Moses:
Numbers 5:2 (show verse)
“Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, or anyone who is defiled because of 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 must send away both male or female; send them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps where I dwell among them.”
Numbers 5:4 (show verse)
The Israelites did this, sending them outside the camp. The Israelites did as the Lord instructed Moses.
Numbers 5:5 (show verse)
The Lord spoke to Moses:
Numbers 5:6 (show verse)
“Tell the Israelites: When a man or woman commits any sin against another, that person acts unfaithfully toward the Lord and is guilty.
Numbers 5:7 (show verse)
The person is to confess the sin he has committed. He is to pay full compensation, add a fifth of its value to it, and give it to the individual he has wronged.
Numbers 5:8 (show verse)
But if that individual has no relative to receive compensation, the compensation goes to the Lord for the priest, along with the atonement ram by which the priest will make atonement for the guilty person.
Numbers 5:9 (show verse)
Every holy contribution the Israelites present to the priest will be his.
Numbers 5:10 (show verse)
Each one’s holy contribution is his to give; what each one gives to the priest will be his.”
Numbers 5:11 (show verse)
The Lord spoke to Moses:
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 5:12 (show verse)
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: If any man’s wife goes astray, is unfaithful to him,
Numbers 5:13 (show verse)
and sleeps with another, but it is concealed from her husband, and she is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her, and she wasn’t caught in the act;
Numbers 5:14 (show verse)
and if a feeling of jealousy comes over the husband and he becomes jealous because of his wife who has defiled herself—or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he becomes jealous of her though she has not defiled herself—
Numbers 5:15 (show verse)
then the man is to bring his wife to the priest. He is also to bring an offering for her of two quarts of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it because it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering for remembrance that brings sin to mind.
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)
“The priest is to bring her forward and have her stand before the Lord.
Numbers 5:17 (show verse)
Then the priest is to take holy water in a clay bowl, and take some of the dust from the tabernacle floor and put it in the water.
Numbers 5:18 (show verse)
After the priest has the woman stand before the Lord, he is to let down her hair and place in her hands the grain offering for remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse.
Numbers 5:19 (show verse)
The priest will require the woman to take an oath and will say to her, ‘If no man has slept with you, if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, be unaffected by this bitter water that brings a 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 gone astray while under your husband’s authority, if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has slept with you’—
Numbers 5:21 (show verse)
at this point the priest must make the woman take the oath with the sworn curse, and he is to say to her—‘May the Lord make you into an object of your people’s cursing and swearing when He makes your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.
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)
May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach, causing your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’
“And the woman must reply, ‘Amen, Amen.’
“And the woman must reply, ‘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)
“Then the priest is to write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
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 require the woman to drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause bitter suffering.
Numbers 5:25 (show verse)
The priest is to take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, wave the offering before the Lord, and bring 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 is to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar. Then he will require the woman to drink the water.
Numbers 5:27 (show verse)
“When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, and her thigh will shrivel. She will become a curse among her people.
Numbers 5:28 (show verse)
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she will be unaffected and will be able to conceive children.
Numbers 5:29 (show verse)
“This is the law regarding jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,
Numbers 5:30 (show verse)
or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he becomes jealous of his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest will apply this entire ritual to her.
Numbers 5:31 (show verse)
The husband will be free of guilt, but that woman will bear the consequences of her guilt.”