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Text -- Numbers 5:1-15 (NET)
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Separation of the Unclean
5:1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses :
5:2 “Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper , everyone who has a discharge , and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse .
5:3 You must expel both men and women ; you must put them outside the camp , so that they will not defile their camps , among which I live .”
5:4 So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp . As the Lord had spoken to Moses , so the Israelites did .
Restitution for Sin
5:5 Then the Lord spoke to Moses :
5:6 “Tell the Israelites , ‘When a man or a woman commits any sin that people commit , thereby breaking faith with the Lord , and that person is found guilty ,
5:7 then he must confess his sin that he has committed and must make full reparation , add one fifth to it, and give it to whomever he wronged .
5:8 But if the individual has no close relative to whom reparation can be made for the wrong , the reparation for the wrong must be paid to the Lord for the priest , in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.
5:9 Every offering of all the Israelites ’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.
5:10 Every man’s holy things will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”
The Jealousy Ordeal
5:11 The Lord spoke to Moses :
5:12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,
5:13 and a man has sexual relations with her without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her , nor was she caught –
5:14 and if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife , when she is defiled ; or if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife , when she is not defiled –
5:15 then the man must bring his wife to the priest , and he must bring the offering required for her, one tenth of an ephah of barley meal ; he must not pour olive oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of suspicion , a grain offering for remembering , for bringing iniquity to remembrance .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Adultery |
WATER OF JEALOUSY |
Jealousy |
Priest |
Leprosy |
Jealousy offering |
Self-crimination |
RIGHTEOUSNESS |
SWELL |
Husband |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
NUMBERS, BOOK OF |
Fine |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 |
TABERNACLE, B |
Jealousy, Waters of |
Women |
WAR; WARFARE |
Trespass offering |
TALMUD |
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NET Notes: Num 5:1 The fifth chapter falls into four main parts: separation of the unclean (vv. 1-4), restitution for sin (vv. 5-10), the jealousy ordeal (vv. 11-28), an...
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NET Notes: Num 5:2 The word is נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh), which usually simply means “[whole] life,” i.e., the soul in the body, th...
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NET Notes: Num 5:3 The imperfect tense functions here as a final imperfect, expressing the purpose of putting such folks outside the camp. The two preceding imperfects (...
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NET Notes: Num 5:4 The perfect tense is here given a past perfect nuance to stress that the word of the Lord preceded the obedience.
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NET Notes: Num 5:6 The word used here for this violation is אָשָׁם (’asham). It can be translated “guilt, to be guilty...
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NET Notes: Num 5:7 This is now the third use of אָשָׁם (’asham); the first referred to “guilt,” the second to ̶...
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NET Notes: Num 5:8 The editors of BHS prefer to follow the Greek, Syriac, and Latin and not read “for the Lord” here, but read a form of the verb “to b...
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NET Notes: Num 5:9 The Hebrew word תְּרוּמָה (tÿrumah) seems to be a general word for any offering that goes t...
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NET Notes: Num 5:10 The “holy gifts” are described with the root of קֹדֶשׁ (qodesh) to convey that they were separate. Suc...
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NET Notes: Num 5:11 There is a good bit of bibliography here. See, e.g., J. M. Sasson, “Numbers 5 and the Waters of Judgment,” BZ 16 (1972): 249-51; and M. Fi...
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NET Notes: Num 5:13 The noun clause beginning with the simple conjunction is here a circumstantial clause, explaining that there was no witness to the sin.
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NET Notes: Num 5:14 The noun clause begins with the conjunction and the pronoun; here it is forming a circumstantial clause, either temporal or causal.
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