Numbers 5 - Introduction

The preceding Chapter s are mainly concerned with the Levites, and are more or less connected by a unity of subject. But this and the following chapter contain a miscellaneous collection of regulations on a variety of matters, belonging, in all probability, to different strataof priestly tradition, Numbers 5:1. Unclean persons to be excluded from the camp. Numbers 5:5. Payments in compensation for wrongs, vv.11 31. The Ordeal of Jealousy.