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...
The Seclusion of Persons Rendered Unclean through Leprosy, Issues, or Contact with the Dead. Such seclusion was the result of a primitive belief th...
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 Levitic...
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 n...
DEFILEMENT AND PURGATION Numbers 5:1-31 THE separation of Israel as a people belonging to Jehovah proceeded on ideas of holiness which excluded...
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. Al...
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 restitut...
It is always both pleasing and profitable, to observe in the letter of the law, the spiritual meaning of it! And here, if I mistake not, in the prece...
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 deliv...
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...
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...
The Unclean to Be Removed. B. C. 1490. ...
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 offe...
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 particula...
THE EXCLUSION OF THE UNCLEAN ( Numbers 5:1-4 ) “Now that the nation was regularly organised, the sacred tribe dedicated, and the sanctuary with t...
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...
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...
Numbers 5:1
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,