Numbers Chapter 5

Cleansing the camps

5:1 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
spoke to Mosesמשה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” click here
, saying,
5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone that has a discharge, and whomever is defiled by the dead
5:3 Both male and female shall y’all put outside the camp shall y’all put them; so that they don’t defile their camps, in the middle of it I stay.
5:4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out outside the camp like YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
spoke to Mosesמשה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” click here
, so did the children of Israel.

Recompensing trespasses


5:5 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
spoke to Mosesמשה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” click here
, saying,
5:6 Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sinחָטָא
Transliteration:ḥāṭā’ Pronunciation:khaw-taw’ – verb A primitive root From an archery term meaning to miss the mark For more info click here
that men commit, to do a trespass against YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, and that person be guilty ;
5:7 Then they shall confess their sin חָטָא
Transliteration:ḥāṭā’ Pronunciation:khaw-taw’ – verb A primitive root From an archery term meaning to miss the mark For more info click here
which they have done and he shall return his trespass with the principal of it, and add to it the fifth [part] of it, and give [it] to [him] against whom he has trespassed.
5:8 But if the man has no relative to return the trespass to, let the trespass be returned to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, [even] to the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
; beside the ram of the atonement, by it an atonement shall be made for him.
5:9 And every offering of all the holyקָדוֹשׁ
Transliteration qāḏôš Pronunciation kaw-doshe’ sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here
things of the children of Israel, which they bring to the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
, shall be his.
5:10 And every man’s hallowed things shall be his what ever any man gives the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
, it shall be his.

Trail of jealousy


5:11 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
spoke to Mosesמשה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” click here
, saying,
5:12 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, If any man’s wife turn aside, and commit a trespass against him,
5:13 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];
5:14 And the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn’t defiled
5:15 Then shall the man bring his wife to the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth [part] of an ephah of barley meal ; he shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it ; for it [is] an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
5:16 And the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
shall bring her near, and set her before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here

5:17 And the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
shall take holyקָדוֹשׁ
Transliteration qāḏôš Pronunciation kaw-doshe’ sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here
water in an earthen vessel ; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
shall take, and put [it] into the water
5:18 And the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
shall set the woman before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which [is] the jealousy offering and the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
shall have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse
5:19 And the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
shall charge her by an oath, and say to the woman, If no man have lain with you , and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness [with another] instead of your husband, be you free from this bitter water that causes the curse
5:20 But if you have gone aside [to another] instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man have lain with you beside your husband
5:21 Then the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
shall say to the woman, YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
make you a curse and an oath among your people, when YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
does make your thigh to rot, and your belly to swell ;
5:22 And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to make [your] belly to swell, and [your] thigh to rot And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

Curse on the cheating wife


5:23 And the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot [them] out with the bitter water
5:24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her, [and become] bitter.
5:25 Then the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, and offer it upon the altar
5:26 And the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
shall take an handful of the offering, [even] the memorial of it, and burn [it] upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
5:27 And when he has made her to drink the water, then it shall so happen, [that], if she is defiled, and has done trespass against her husband, that the water that causes 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.
5:28 And if the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean ; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
5:29 This [is] the teachingתּוֹרָה‎
Tōrā,/ˈtɔːrə, ˈtoʊrə/; law, teaching, direction, instruction – The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot.
of jealousies, when a wife goes aside [to another] instead of her husband, and is defiled ;
5:30 Or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, and the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here
shall execute upon her all this instruction תּוֹרָה‎
Tōrā,/ˈtɔːrə, ˈtoʊrə/; law, teaching, direction, instruction – The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot.
.
5:31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

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