1 Peter 1:7; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Micah 7:7-10; Numbers 5:19; Psalms 113:9
The trial of jealousy. Since the crime of adultery is especially defiling and destructive of the very foundations of social order, the whole subjec...
An Ordeal in Cases of Jealousy. A married woman suspected of unfaithfulness is, in the absence of evidence, to be subjected to an ordeal by being m...
be. Hebrew she be.
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
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 alta...
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...
DEFILEMENT AND PURGATION Numbers 5:1-31 THE separation of Israel as a people belonging to Jehovah proceeded on ideas of holiness which excluded...
3. THE WATER OF JEALOUSY Numbers 5:11-31 . The long and remarkable statute regarding the water of jealousy seems to have been interposed to prev...
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...
These verses contain a very circumstantial account, of the law of jealousy. The process of trial is very solemn and awful; and the event, suited to t...
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean ,.... If she is not guilty of adultery, but pure from that sin: then she shall be free ; from the ef...
Conceive seed That is, shall bring forth children: as the Jews say, in case of her innocence, she infallibly did, yea, though she had been barren b...
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 Bitter Water of Jealousy. B. C. 1490....
She shall be free, to wit, from these bitter curses and miseries. Shall conceive seed, i.e. shall bring forth children, as the Jews say, in case...
If The Woman Is innocent She Will Be Revealed As Clean and Will Be Free of Any Blame for Hidden Adultery Before God and Men ( Numbers 5:28 ). Nu...
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...
If any man’s wife go aside. The trial of the suspected wife I. Confidence in conjugal relations is of great importance. “Suspicion,” says Bp. B...
The Trial of Jealousy
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean, then she shall be free, not be visited by the punishment of God, and free to hold up her head among th...
Conceive seed — That is, shall bring forth children, as the Jews say, in case of her innocency, she infallibly did, yea though she was barren befor...
28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.