Numbers 5:1
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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:_ PUT OUT OF THE CAMP EVERY LEPER. The exclusion of leprous persons from the camp in the wilderness, as from cities and villages afterward, was a sanator... [ Continue Reading ]
_BOTH MALE AND FEMALE SHALL YE PUT OUT, WITHOUT THE CAMP SHALL YE PUT THEM; THAT THEY DEFILE NOT THEIR CAMPS, IN THE MIDST WHEREOF I DWELL._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHEN A MAN OR WOMAN SHALL COMMIT ANY SIN THAT MEN COMMIT, TO DO A TRESPASS AGAINST THE LORD, AND THAT PERSON BE GUILTY;_ Trespass against the Lord. This is a wrong or injury done by one man to the property of another and as it is called "a trespass against the Lo... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THEY SHALL CONFESS THEIR SIN WHICH THEY HAVE DONE: AND HE SHALL RECOMPENSE HIS TRESPASS WITH THE PRINCIPAL THEREOF, AND ADD UNTO IT THE FIFTH PART THEREOF, AND GIVE IT UNTO HIM AGAINST WHOM HE HATH TRESPASSED._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND EVERY OFFERING OF ALL THE HOLY THINGS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHICH THEY BRING UNTO THE PRIEST, SHALL BE HIS._ Every offering ... shall be his. Whatever was given in this way, or otherwise, as by free-will offerings, irrevocably belonged to the priest.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND EVERY MAN'S HALLOWED THINGS SHALL BE HIS: WHATSOEVER ANY MAN GIVETH THE PRIEST, IT SHALL BE HIS._ Every man's hallowed things shall be his, х_ Wª'IYSH_ (H376) _ 'ET_ (H854) _ QAADAASHAAYW_ (H6944)]; Septuagint, hekastou ta heegiasmena]. This refers most probably not to sacrifices, whether volu... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM, IF ANY MAN'S WIFE GO ASIDE, AND COMMIT A TRESPASS AGAINST HIM,_ If man's wife go aside. This law was given both as a strong discouragement to conjugal infidelity on the part of a wife, and a sufficient protection of her from the consequences of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND A MAN LIE WITH HER CARNALLY, AND IT BE HID FROM THE EYES OF HER HUSBAND, AND BE KEPT CLOSE, AND SHE BE DEFILED, AND THERE BE NO WITNESS AGAINST HER, NEITHER SHE BE TAKEN WITH THE MANNER;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 - water from the laver, which was to be mixed with dust-an emblem of vileness and misery (Genesis 3:... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PRIEST SHALL SET THE WOMAN BEFORE THE LORD, AND UNCOVER THE WOMAN'S HEAD, AND PUT THE OFFERING OF MEMORIAL IN HER HANDS, WHICH IS THE JEALOUSY OFFERING: AND THE PRIEST SHALL HAVE IN HIS HAND THE BITTER WATER THAT CAUSETH THE CURSE:_ Bitter water, х_ MEEY_ (H4325) _ HAMAARIYM_ (H4751)] - wa... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PRIEST SHALL CHARGE HER BY AN OATH, AND SAY UNTO THE WOMAN, IF NO MAN HAVE LAIN WITH THEE, AND IF THOU HAST NOT GONE ASIDE TO UNCLEANNESS WITH ANOTHER INSTEAD OF THY HUSBAND, BE THOU FREE FROM THIS BITTER WATER THAT CAUSETH THE CURSE:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE PRIEST SHALL CHARGE THE WOMAN WITH AN OATH OF CURSING, AND THE PRIEST SHALL SAY UNTO THE WOMAN, THE LORD MAKE THEE A CURSE AND AN OATH AMONG THY PEOPLE, WHEN THE LORD DOTH MAKE THY THIGH TO ROT, AND THY BELLY TO SWELL;_ The Lord make thee a curse ... - a usual form of imprecation (Isaiah... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THIS WATER THAT CAUSETH THE CURSE SHALL GO INTO THY BOWELS, TO MAKE THY BELLY TO SWELL, AND THY THIGH TO ROT: AND THE WOMAN SHALL SAY, AMEN, AMEN._ Amen, amen. The Israelites were accustomed, instead of formally repeating the words of an oath, merely to say Amen, a 'so be it' to the imprecatio... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 of record-on parchment, or more probably on a wooden tablet. BLOT THEM OUT WITH THE BITTER WATER,... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE PRIEST SHALL TAKE THE JEALOUSY OFFERING OUT OF THE WOMAN'S HAND, AND SHALL WAVE THE OFFERING BEFORE THE LORD, AND OFFER IT UPON THE ALTAR:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THIS IS THE LAW OF JEALOUSIES, WHEN A WIFE GOETH ASIDE TO ANOTHER INSTEAD OF HER HUSBAND, AND IS DEFILED;_ This is the law of jealousies. Adultery discovered and proved was punished with death. But strongly suspected cases would occur, and this law made provision for the conviction of the guilty p... [ Continue Reading ]