Numbers Chapter 5 Lays the Truth About Purity Against Waywardness

G-d Requires Purity and Sanctity

In this chapter the focus is more on the wayward wife – its curse

May you have a full understanding of what and how G-d’s detailed commandments are all about.

*The bottom line is, will you start listening to Him and obey? Or you continue to ignore and pretend innocent?

“Purification of the Camp”
“The Wayward Wife”

“Command the Children of Israel that they shall expel from the camp everyone who has had a zav-emission, and everyone contaminated by human corpse.
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“Command the Children of Israel that they shall expel from the camp everyone with tzaraas, everyone who has had a zav-emission, and everyone contaminated by human corpse.
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The Children of Israel did so: They expelled them to the outside of the camp, as Hashem had spoken to Moses – so did the Children of Israel do.
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“Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them: Any man whose wife shall go astray and commit treachery against him;
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and a man could have lain with her carnally, but it was hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she became secluded and could have been defiled – but there was no witness against her – and she had not been forced;
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and a spirit of jealousy had passed over him and he had warned his wife, and she had become defiled, or a spirit of jealousy had passed over him and he had warned his wife and she had not become defiled.
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“The Kohen shall adjure her and say to the woman, ‘If a man has not lain with you, and you have not strayed in defilement with someone other than your husband, then be proven innocent of these bitter waters that cause curse.
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But if you have strayed with someone other than your husband, and if you have become defiled, and a man other than your husband has lain with you — !”
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… ‘May Hashem render you as a curse and as an oath amid your people, when Hashem causes your thigh to collapse and your stomach to distend.
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These waters that cause curse shall enter your innards to cause stomach to distend and thigh to collapse!’ And the woman shall respond, ‘Amen, amen.’
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“The Kohen shall inscribe these curses on a scroll and erase it into the bitter waters.
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When he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter waters that cause curse, then the waters that cause curse shall come into her for bitterness.
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This is the law of jealousies, when a woman shall go astray with someone other than her husband and become defiled;
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or of a man over whom passes a spirit of jealousy and he warns his wife, and he causes his wife to stand before Hashem, then the Kohen shall carry out for her this entire law.
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The man will be innocent of iniquity, but that woman shall bear her iniquity.”
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1 The Lord spoke to Moses saying:
2 Command the children of Israel to banish from the camp all those afflicted with tzara’ath or with a male discharge, and all those unclean through [contact with] the dead.
3 Both male and female you shall banish; you shall send them outside the camp, and they not defile their camps, in which I dwell among them.
4 The children of Israel did so: they sent them outside the camp; as the Lord had spoken to Moses, so did the children of Israel do.
5 The Lord then spoke to Moses saying:
6 Tell the children of Israel: When a man or woman commits any of the sins against man to act treacherously against God, and that person is [found] guilty,
7 they shall confess the sin they committed, and make restitution for the principal amount of his guilt, add its fifth to it, and give it to the one against whom he was guilty.
8 But if the man has no kinsman to whom to make restitution, the debt which is restored to the Lord, [is to be given] to the kohen. [This is] besides the atonement ram through which expiation is made for him.
9 Every offering of all the children of Israel’s holy things which is brought to the kohen, shall be his.
10 Everyone’s holy things shall belong to him; whatever a man gives to the kohen shall be his.
11 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: Should any man’s wife go astray and deal treacherously with him,
13 and a man lie with her carnally, but it was hidden from her husband’s eyes, but she was secluded [with the suspected adulterer] and there was no witness against her, and she was not seized.
14 But a spirit of jealousy had come upon him and he became jealous of his wife, and she was defiled, or, a spirit of jealousy had come upon him and he was jealous of his wife, and she was not defiled.
15 Then the man shall bring his wife to the kohen and bring her offering for her, one tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He shall neither pour oil over it nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousies, a meal offering of remembrance, recalling iniquity.
16 The kohen shall bring her forth and present her before the Lord.
17 The kohen shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and some earth from the Mishkan floor, the kohen shall take and put it into the water.
18 Then the kohen shall stand the woman up before the Lord and expose the [hair on the] head of the woman; he shall place into her hands the remembrance meal offering, which is a meal offering of jealousies, while the bitter curse bearing waters are in the kohen’s hand.
19 The kohen shall then place her under oath, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you and you have not gone astray to become defiled [to another] in place of your husband, then [you will] be absolved through these bitter waters which cause the curse.
20 But as for you, if you have gone astray [to another] instead of your husband and have become defiled, and another man besides your husband has lain with you…”
21 The kohen shall now adjure the woman with the oath of the curse, and the kohen shall say to the woman, “May the Lord make you for a curse and an oath among your people, when the Lord causes your thigh to rupture and your belly to swell.
22 For these curse bearing waters shall enter your innards, causing the belly to swell and the thigh to rupture,” and the woman shall say, “Amen, amen.”
23 Then the kohen shall write these curses on a scroll and erase it in the bitter water.
24 He shall then give the bitter, curse bearing waters to the woman to drink, and the curse bearing waters shall enter her to become bitter.
25 The kohen shall take the meal offering of jealousies from the woman’s hand, wave the meal offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar.
26 The kohen shall scoop out from the meal offering its reminder and burn it upon the altar, and then he shall give the woman the water to drink.
27 He shall make her drink the water, and it shall be that, if she had been defiled and was unfaithful to her husband, the curse bearing waters shall enter her to become bitter, and her belly will swell, and her thigh will rupture. The woman will be a curse among her people.
28 But if the woman had not become defiled and she is clean, she shall be exempted and bear seed.
29 This is the law of jealousies when a woman goes astray to someone other than her husband and is defiled,
30 or if a spirit of jealousy comes over a man, and he is jealous of his wife, and he presents the woman before the Lord, and the kohen shall do to her all of this law,
31 the man shall be absolved of iniquity, and the woman shall bear her iniquity.