XPost: alt.christnet, alt.bible, alt.religion.christian.biblestudy   
   XPost: alt.messianic   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 56, 25 February 2026   
      
   1) Numbers 5, Numbers 6   
      
   NUMBERS 5   
      
   The Unclean   
      
   1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:   
   2 (Lev 13:46; 21:1) Command the children of Israel that they put out   
   of the camp every leper, and everyone who has a discharge, and whoever   
   is defiled by the dead.   
   3 (Lev 26:11-12; Dt 23:14) Both male and female you will put out.   
   You will put them outside the camp, so they do not defile their   
   camps in the midst of which I dwell.   
   4 The children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp.   
   As the Lord spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.   
      
   [1] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   
   [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:   
   [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.   
   [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.   
      
   Restitution for Wrongs   
      
   5 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:   
   6 Tell the children of Israel: When a man or woman commits   
   any sin against another, acting unfaithfully against the Lord,   
   that person is guilty,   
   7 (Lev 5:5; 26:40; Jos 7:19) and shall confess his sin which   
   he has committed, and he will repay his offense with its principal,   
   and add to it one-fifth, and give it to him who was wronged.   
   8 (Lev 6:6-7; 7:7) But if the man has no relative to repay the offense to,   
   let the offense be repaid to the Lord, even to the priest, beside the ram   
   of the atonement, whereby an atonement will be made for him.   
   9 (Ex 29:28; Lev 6:17-18) Every offering of all the holy things   
   of the children of Israel, which they bring to the priest, will be his.   
   10 Every man's holy things will be his. Whatever any man gives the priest,   
   it will be his.   
      
   [5] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   
   [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;   
   [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.   
   [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.   
   [9] And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel,   
   which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.   
   [10] And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth   
   the priest, it shall be his.   
      
   The Test for Adultery   
      
   11 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:   
   12 (Nu 5:19-20) Speak to the children of Israel and say to them:   
   If any man's wife goes astray, and acts treacherously against him,   
   13 (Lev 18:20; 20:10) and a man lies with her carnally,   
   and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband,   
   and it is concealed though she has defiled herself,   
   and there is no witness against her, nor is she caught in the act,   
   14 (Pr 6:34; SS 8:6) and if the spirit of jealousy comes on him,   
   and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit   
   of jealousy comes on him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not   
   defiled herself,   
   15 (Eze 29:16; Lev 5:11) then the man shall bring his wife to the priest   
   and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah   
   (Likely about 3 1/2 pounds, or 1.6 kilograms.) of barley flour.   
   He shall pour no oil on it nor put frankincense on it,   
   for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance,   
   bringing iniquity to remembrance.   
   16 The priest will bring her near, and set her before the Lord.   
   17 And the priest will take holy water in an earthen vessel,   
   and the priest will take some of the dust that is on the floor   
   of the tabernacle and put it into the water.   
   18 And the priest will set the woman before the Lord,   
   and uncover the woman's head, and put the memorial offering in her hands,   
   which is the grain offering of jealousy, and the priest will have in his   
   hand the bitter water that causes the curse.   
   19 And the priest will charge her by an oath, and say to the woman,   
   "If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to   
   impurity with another instead of your husband,   
   be free from this bitter water that causes the curse.   
   20 But if you have gone astray to another instead of your husband,   
   and if you are defiled, and a man besides your husband has lain with you"-   
   21 (Jos 6:26; 1Sa 14:24) then the priest will charge the woman with   
   an oath of cursing, and the priest will say to the woman,   
   "The Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people,   
   when the Lord makes your thigh rot and your belly swell.   
   22 (Ps 109:18; Dt 27:15-26) And this water that causes   
   the curse will go into your bowels,   
   to make your belly swell and your thigh rot."   
   And the woman will say, "Amen, amen."   
   23 The priest will write these curses in a book,   
   and he will wash them out with the bitter water.   
   24 And he will cause the woman to drink the bitter water   
   that causes the curse. And the water that causes the curse   
   will enter into her and become bitter.   
   25 (Lev 8:27) Then the priest will take the grain offering   
   of jealousy out of the woman's hand and will wave the offering   
   before the Lord and offer it on the altar.   
   26 (Lev 2:2; 2:9) And the priest will take a handful of the offering,   
   the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward will   
   cause the woman to drink the water.   
   27 (Jer 29:18; 42:18) When he has made her to drink the water,   
   then it will be that, if she is defiled and has acted treacherously   
   against her husband, the water that causes the curse will enter into her,   
   and become bitter, and her belly will swell, and her thigh will rot,   
   and the woman will be a curse among her people.   
   28 If the woman is not defiled, but is clean,   
   then she will be free and will conceive offspring.   
   29 (Nu 5:19; 5:12) This is the law of jealousies,   
   when a wife goes astray to another instead of her husband,   
   and is defiled,   
   30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on him,   
   and he is jealous over his wife,   
   and will set the woman before the Lord,   
   and the priest will perform on her all this law.   
   31 Then the man will be guiltless from iniquity,   
   and this woman will bear her iniquity.   
      
   [11] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   
   [12] Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife   
   go aside, and commit a trespass against him,   
   [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;   
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)