Numbers 5:1-10

On Defilement

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Command the sons of Israel that they ¹send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a ²discharge and everyone who is ³unclean because of a dead person.

3 "You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside * * the camp so that they will not defile their camp where I dwell ⁴in their midst."

4 The sons of Israel did so and sent them outside * * the camp; just as the LORD had spoken to Moses, thus the sons of Israel did.

5 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

6 "Speak to the sons of Israel, '⁵When a man or woman commits any * of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against the LORD, and that person is guilty,

7 then he shall ⁶confess his sins which he has committed, and he ⁷shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it, and give it to him whom he has wronged.

8 'But if the man has no relative to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution which is made for the wrong must go to the LORD for the priest, besides * the ram of atonement, by which atonement is made for him.

9 '⁸Also every contribution pertaining to all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they offer to the priest, shall be his.

10 'So every man's holy gifts shall be his; whatever any man gives to the priest, it ⁹becomes his.' "

Read Chapter Compare

Numbers 5:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 5

This chapter contains a repetition of some former laws, concerning putting unclean persons out of the camp, Nu 5:1-4; making restitution in case of trespass against another, Nu 5:5-8; and of giving the offering of all holy things and all hallowed things to the priests, Nu 5:9,10; and a new law concerning jealousy, in a man, of his wife, Nu 5:11-14; when she was to be brought to the priest, and various rites and ceremonies to be used, Nu 5:15-23; who was to give her bitter water as a trial of her chastity, which, if guilty, would have a strange effect upon her, and make her accursed, but if not, would not affect her, and she would be free and happy, Nu 5:24-31.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

1. Leviticus 13:8, 46; Num 12:10, 14, 15
2. Leviticus 15:2
3. Leviticus 21:1; Numbers 9:6-10; Numbers 19:11
4. Leviticus 26:12; Numbers 35:34
5. Lev 5:14-6:7
6. Leviticus 5:5; Leviticus 26:40, 41; Joshua 7:19
7. Leviticus 6:4, 5
8. Leviticus 7:32, 34; Leviticus 10:14, 15
9. Leviticus 10:13

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "they"
[b]. Lit "their"
[c]. Lit "they have"
[d]. Lit "redeemer"
[e]. Lit "heave offering"