1 The unclean are removed out of camp
5 Restitution is to be made in trespass
11 The trial of jealously

2 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:

put out of the camp. The camp of Israel being now formed, with the sanctuary of God in the centre, orders were given that the lepers and unclean persons should be excluded from the camp, according to the laws given at different times on these subjects. This expulsion was founded, 1. On a purely physical reason; for the diseases were contagious, and therefore there was a necessity of putting those afflicted with them apart, that the infection might not be communicated. 2. There was also a spiritual reason; the camp was the habitation of God; and therefore, in honour of Him who had thus condescended to dwell with them, nothing impure should be permitted to remain. 3. Further, there was a typical reason; for the camp was the emblem of the church, where nothing that is defiled should enter, and in which nothing that is unholy should be tolerated. Nu 12:14 Le 13:46 De 24:8,9 2Ki 7:3

and every Le 15:2-27

and whosoever Nu 9:6-10 19:11-16 31:19 Le 21:1

3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.

without 1Ki 7:3 1Co 5:13 2Co 6:17 2Th 3:6 Tit 3:10 Heb 12:15,16 2Jo 1:10,11 Re 21:27

defile not Nu 19:22 Hag 2:13,14

in the midst Le 26:11,12 De 23:14 Ps 68:18 Isa 12:6 2Co 6:16 Re 21:3

4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.

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5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;

when Le 5:1-4,17 6:2,3

and that person. This expression does not merely refer to the actual criminality of the person, but to his consciousness of guilt respecting it; for this case must be distinguished from that of a person detected in dishonesty, which he attempted to conceal.

7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.

confess Le 5:5 26:40 Jos 7:19 Job 33:27,28 Ps 32:5 Pr 28:13 1Jo 1:8-10

and he shall. Not only confession, but restitution, in every possible case, is necessary in order to obtain forgiveness. with the principal Le 5:15 6:4-7 7:7 Lu 19:8

8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.

have no Le 25:25,26

beside the ram Le 6:6,7 7:7

9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

offering. or heave offering Nu 18:8,9,19 Ex 29:28 Le 6:17,18,26 7:6-14 10:13 22:2,3 De 18:3,4 Eze 44:29,30 Mal 3:8-10 1Co 9:7-13

10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

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11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

Nu 5:19,20 Pr 2:16,17

13 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;

Le 18:20 20:10 Pr 7:18,19 30:20

14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

Rooach kinah, either a supernatural diabolic influence, exciting him to jealousy, or, rather, the passion or affection of jealousy Nu 5:30 Pr 6:34 So 8:6 Zep 3:8 1Co 10:22

15 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 it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

her offering for her. This coarse offering without oil or frankincense, implied the baseness of the crime of which the woman was suspected, and the mournful state of her family. It was not an atoning sacrifice, but an oblation for a memorial, as solemnly referring the decision to God, and calling upon him either to acquit or punish. Le 5:11 Ho 3:2

bringing 1Ki 17:18 Eze 29:16 Heb 10:3

16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:

bring her near, or rather, 'bring it near'; her offering. set her rather set it. the offering; for the woman is afterwards ordered to be set before the Lord. Le 1:3 Jer 17:10 Heb 13:4 Re 2:22,23

17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:

holy water. That is, water from the layer; called holy, because separated from common to sacred uses. This is the most ancient account of the trial by ordeal, which obtained so generally among various nations; and it was calculated to fortify the minds of the Israelitish women in the hour of temptation and to render them watchful against all occasions of exciting suspicion in the breasts of their husbands. Nu 19:2-9 Ex 30:18

of the dust Job 2:12 Jer 17:13 La 3:29 Joh 8:6,8

18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:

charge her Mt 26:63

with another or being in the power of thy husband. Heb. under thy husband Ro 7:2

19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:

20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

an oath Jos 6:26 1Sa 14:24 Ne 10:29 Mt 26:74

The Lord make Isa 65:15 Jer 29:22

rot. Heb. fall 2Ch 21:15 Pr 10:7

22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

go into Nu 5:27 Ps 109:18 Pr 1:31 Eze 3:3

the woman De 27:15-26 Job 31:21,22,39,40 Ps 7:4,5

Amen Ps 41:13 72:19 89:52 Joh 3:3,11 5:24,25 6:53

23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

write these Ex 17:14 De 31:19 2Ch 34:24 Job 31:35 Jer 51:60-64 1Co 16:21,22 Re 20:12

blot Ps 51:1,9 Isa 43:25 44:22 Ac 3:19

24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.

Zec 5:3,4 Mal 3:5

25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:

priest Nu 5:15,18

wave Ex 29:24 Le 8:27

26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.

Le 2:2,9 5:12 6:15

27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

if she be defiled Nu 5:20 Pr 5:4-11 Ec 7:26 Ro 6:21 2Co 2:16 Heb 10:26-30 2Pe 2:10

the woman De 28:37 Ps 83:9-11 Isa 65:15 Jer 24:9 29:18,22 42:18 Zec 8:13

28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

and if Nu 5:19 Mic 7:7-10 2Co 4:17 1Pe 1:7

and shall Ps 113:9

29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

the law Le 7:11 11:46 13:59 14:54-57 15:32,33

when a wife goeth Nu 5:12,15,19 Isa 5:7,8

30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

be guiltless Ps 37:6

bear Nu 9:13 Le 20:10,17-20 Eze 18:4 Ro 2:8,9