Numbers 5:1
INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 5
This chapter contains a repetition of some former laws, concerning putting unclean persons out of the camp, Nu 5:1; making restitution in case of trespass against another, Nu 5:5; and of giving the offering of all holy things and all hallowed things to the priests, Nu 5:9; and a new law concerning jealousy, in a man, of his wife, Nu 5:11; when she was to be brought to the priest, and various rites and ceremonies to be used, Nu 5:15; who was to give her bitter water as a trial of her chastity, which, if guilty, would have a strange effect upon her, and make her accursed, but if not, would not affect her, and she would be free and happy, Nu 5:24.
Ver. 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.