Thursday, 2 January 2025

Numbers 5 (résumé): Laws for maintaining purity & marital fidelity

God commanded that everyone with infectious skin disease, discharges or is ceremonially unclean owing to contact with a dead body should be sent outside the camp of Israel.

If a person sinned against another he or she should make full restitution as well as paying an additional 20% fine.

If a man suspected his wife of adultery, but couldn't prove it, he should take her to the priest with a jealousy offering of Barley flour. There the priest would make her drink holy water mixed with dirt from the Tabernacle floor. If she was innocent there would be no ill effect from the drink, but if she was guilty she would have miscarriages and be barren. 

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