Numbers 5:1-11

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2 "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.

3 You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell."

4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

5 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

6 "Speak to the children of Israel: 'When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit in unfaithfulness against the Lord, and that person is guilty,

7 then he shall confess the sin which he has committed. He shall make restitution for his trespass in full, plus one-fifth of it, and give it to the one he has wronged.

8 But if the man has no relative to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for the wrong must go to the Lord for the priest, in addition to the ram of the atonement with which atonement is made for him.

9 Every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his.

10 And every man's holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest shall be his.' "

11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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Numbers 5:1-11 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

Numbers 5:1-11

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Numbers 5:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 5