“ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ”
The general purpose of the directions given in this and the next chapter is to attest and to vindicate, by modes in harmony with the spirit of the theocratical law, the sanctity of the people of Go...
The Seclusion of Persons Rendered Unclean through Leprosy, Issues, or Contact with the Dead. Such seclusion was the result of a primitive belief that persons in the conditions specified were the se...
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. spake. See note on Numbers 1:1 .
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, No JFB commentary on this verse.
Various Ceremonial Laws 1-4. On the seclusion of lepers and unclean persons, see Leviticus 13-15. 5-10. On the law of restitution, see Leviticus 5:14 to Leviticus 6:7 , to which the present...
1. EXCLUSION FROM THE CAMP Numbers 5:1-4 . The rigidness of the law which excluded lepers from the camp and afterwards from the cities had its necessity in the presumed nature of their disease....
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...
CONTENTS This chapter contains an order for the removal of the unclean, from the Camp. Here is also a repetition of the law, concerning the restitution to be made in cases of trespass; and the mode...
And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... Jarchi says, what follows was said on the day the tabernacle was erected, but it seems rather to have been delivered after the several camps were formed, and the...
The camps and divisions of priests, Levites, and people being thus settled, now was the time when the law about excluding leprous and unclean persons from the camps was to take place; God having, for...
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 defileme...
The Unclean to Be Removed. B. C. 1490. 1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Co...
NUMBERS CHAPTER 5 God commands to put away all unclean persons from the camp; it is executed, Numbers 5:1-4 . Restitution commanded, and an offering, especially of hallowed things, which belong...
The Ritual Cleansing of the Camp ( Numbers 5:1-4 ). The first essential was a symbolic purifying of the camp. This symbolic act at this particular time was in order to stress the importance of ke...
THE EXCLUSION OF THE UNCLEAN ( Numbers 5:1-4 ) “Now that the nation was regularly organised, the sacred tribe dedicated, and the sanctuary with the tokens of God’s more immediate Presence provide...
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 ignoranc...
EXPOSITION THE UNCLEAN TO BE REMOVED ( Numbers 5:1-4 ). Numbers 5:2 Every leper. The law of the leper had been given in great detail in Leviticus 13:1-3 and Leviticus 14:1-3...
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 5:1