Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Numbers 5:15
Cp. Leviticus 2:1.
Cp. Leviticus 2:1.
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...
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...
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...
OFFERING. Hebrew. _korban,_ approach-offering. See App-43. EPHAH. See App-51. BARLEY. No other grain, and no other measure. Compare Leviticus 2:1. OFFERING: i.e. of jealousy. Hebrew. _minchah_ (App...
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...
_the tenth part of an ephah_ A little under 7 pints. An _ephah_was a dry measure equivalent to the liquid measure _bath_; both were equal to 1/10th _homer_. See Isaiah 5:10. _barley meal_ The coarsest...
HE SHALL BRING HER OFFERING FOR HER— This offering was to be of a mean sort, unaccompanied either with oil or frankincense, to denote the mean and humble circumstances of the person on whose account i...
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...
_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...
5:15 offering (b-17) _ Corban_ . Leviticus 1:2 ....
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
וְ הֵבִ֨יא הָ אִ֣ישׁ אֶת ־אִשְׁתֹּו֮ אֶל
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...
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...
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...
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth [part] of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no (f) oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon;...
_Measure, ( sati). Hebrew and Septuagint, "epha," of which the measure was only one-third. (Calmet) --- Oil, &c. These were rejected in sacrifices for sin, Leviticus v. 11. Jealous husbands have no se...
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...
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...
15._Then shall the man bring his wife to the priest_. This offering is different from the rest, which have been heretofore mentioned, because it is a kind of _adjuration_, whereby the woman exposes he...
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...
THEN SHALL THE MAN BRING HIS WIFE UNTO THE PRIEST,.... Not to the high priest but to a common priest, anyone then officiating in his course; for there was a jealousy offering to be offered up before t...
_Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth [part] of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; fo...
_The man shall bring her to the priest_ With the witnesses that could prove the ground of his suspicions, and desire she might be put upon her trial. The Jews say, the priest was first to endeavour to...
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...
then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for i...
THE TRIAL OF JEALOUSY...
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...
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...
THEN, she persisting in her denial, and her husband requiring her submission to this way of trial. _Her offering_ was partly because none were to appear before God empty, EXODUS 23:15; partly, by way...
''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...
Numbers 5:15 man H376 bring H935 (H8689) wife H802 priest H3548 bring H935 (H8689) offering H7133
THE MAN IS TO BRING HIS WIFE TO THE PRIEST WITH AN OFFERING OF MEMORIAL (NUMBERS 5:15). Numbers 5:15 “ Then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her oblation for her, the tent...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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....
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 5:15 GRAIN OFFERING. For the normal procedure, see Leviticus 2:1. The absence of OIL and f
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...
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
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...
1 Kings 17:18; Ezekiel 29:16; Hebrews 10:3; Hosea 3:2; Leviticus 5:11
The man shall bring her to the priest — Who first strove to persuade her to own the truth. If she did, she was not put to death, (which must have been, if it had been proved against her) but only was...
Doesn’t the Bible condone a superstition here? PROBLEM: Paul condemns “old wives’ fables” (1 Timothy 4:7). But, Moses here commands the practice of a superstition that has no basis in science. The acc...