Numbers 5:1-31

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 5:1-10

Here is, I. A command for the purifying of the camp, by turning out from within its lines all those that were ceremonially unclean, by issues, leprosies, or the touch of dead bodies, until they were cleansed according to the law, Luke 5:2; 3. 1. These orders are executed immediately, Luke 5:4. (1.) The camp was now newly-modelled and put in order, and therefore, to complete the reformation of it, it is next to be cleansed. Note, The purity of the church must be as carefully consulted and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 5:11-31

We have here the law concerning the solemn trial of a wife whose husband was jealous of her. Observe, I. What was the case supposed: That a man had some reason to suspect his wife to have committed adultery, Luke 5:12-14. Here, 1. The sin of adultery is justly represented as an exceedingly sinful sin; it is going aside from God and virtue, and the good way, Prov. 2:17. It is committing a trespass against the husband, robbing him of his honour, alienating his right, introducing a spurious breed... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 5:1

And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... Jarchi says, what follows was said on the day the tabernacle was erected, but it seems rather to have been delivered after the several camps were formed, and the people numbered, when those that were unclean were ordered to be cast out of them: saying ; as follows. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 5:2

Command the children of Israel ,.... Not as from himself, but from the Lord; deliver out the following as a command of his, to which obedience was required of all the children of Israel: that they put out of the camp every leper ; there were three camps, Jarchi says, in the time of their encampment; between the curtains was the camp of the Shechinah, or the divine Majesty; the encampment of the Levites round about; and from thence to the end was the camp of the standards, to the four... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 5:3

Both male and female shall ye put out ,.... Whether leprous, or profluvious, or defiled by touching a dead carcass: by this law, Miriam, when leprous, was put out of the camp, Numbers 12:14 , without the camp shall ye put them ; which is repeated that it might be taken notice of, and punctually observed: that they defile not their camps ; of which there were four, the camps of Judah, Reuben, Ephraim, and Dan: in the midst whereof I dwell ; for the tabernacle, which was the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 5:4

And the children of Israel did so, and put them without the camp ,.... Aben Ezra observes, that this was done immediately before they journeyed, and that those that were defiled journeyed between the standard of Ephraim and the standard of Dan; but this, he says, was by way of conjecture, since it is not expressed: as the Lord spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel ; they were obedient in this particular. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 5:5

And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... Or continued to speak to him at the same time: saying ; as follows. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 5:6

Speak unto the children of Israel ,.... Put them in mind of the following law, that they observe it; and which is here repeated, because of two new things in it, as Jarchi observes, the one relates to confession, teaching that there is no fifth part nor trespass offering by witnesses, till a man confesses the thing; and the other is, concerning taking anything away by violence from a proselyte, which is to be given to the priests; see the original law in Leviticus 6:1 , when a man or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 5:7

Then they shall confess their sin which they have done ,.... The form of which confession, according to Fagius, was, O Lord, I am guilty of death, I have deserved to be stoned for this sin, or to be strangled for this trespass, or to be burnt for this crime, &c.; and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof ; paying the whole of whatsoever he had in any manner defrauded his neighbour of, to which he was to add a fifth part... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 5:8

But if a man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass to ,.... This supposes that if a man should die, against whom the trespass is, before the restitution is made, then it shall be made to his heirs; and if he has none, then it was to be given to the priest, as after directed: the Jews F7 Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Bava Kama, c. 9. sect. 11. Jarchi in loc. generally understand this of a proselyte, that has no heirs, for they say, there is no Israelite but has kinsmen, a... read more

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