5:3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp
shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the
a midst whereof I dwell.
(a) There were three types of tents: of the Lord, of the
Levites, and of the Israelites.
5:6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall
commit any sin b that men commit, to do a trespass against
the LORD, and that person be guilty;
(b) Commit any fault willingly.
5:8 But if the c 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.
(c) If he is dead to whom the wrong is done and also has no
relatives.
5:9 And every offering of all the d holy things of the
children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall
be his.
(d) Or, things offered to the Lord, as first fruits, etc.
5:12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If
any man's wife e go aside, and commit a trespass against
him,
(e) By breaking the band of marriage, and playing the
harlot.
5:15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he
shall bring her offering for her, the tenth [part] of an
ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no f oil upon it, nor
put frankincense thereon; for it [is] an offering of
jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to
g remembrance.
(f) Only in the sin offering, and so this offering of
jealousy were neither oil nor incense offered.
(g) Or, making the sin known, and not purging it.
5:17 And the priest shall take h holy water in an earthen
vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the
tabernacle the priest shall take, and put [it] into the
water:
(h) Which also is called the water of purification of
sprinkling, read (Nu 19:9).
5:18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and
uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial
in her hands, which [is] the jealousy offering: and the
priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth
the i curse:
(i) It was so called by the effect, because it declared the
woman to be accursed, and turned to her destruction.
5:21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of
cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD
make thee a k curse and an oath among thy people, when
the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to
swell;
(k) Both because she had committed so heinous a fault, and
forswore herself in denying the same.
5:22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy
bowels, to make [thy] belly to swell, and [thy] thigh to
rot: And the woman shall say, l Amen, amen.
5:23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he
shall m blot [them] out with the bitter water:
(m) Shall wash the curses, which are written, into the
water in the vessel.
5:26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering,
[even] the memorial thereof, and burn [it] upon the n
altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the
water.
(n) Where the incense was offered.
5:31 Then shall the man be o guiltless from iniquity, and this
woman shall bear her iniquity.
(o) The man might accuse his wife on suspicion and not be
reproved.
