Numbers 5

“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,” Naming Moses keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and…” The number one makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the…” Naming Israel and Moses keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,” Naming Moses keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD , even…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,” Naming Moses keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,” Naming Israel and Speak keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled…” The line’s distinctive content terms include carnally, close, defiled. Its relationship to verses 12 and 14 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of…” The line’s distinctive content terms include defiled, jealous, jealousy. Its relationship to verses 13 and 15 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD :” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD , and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with…” The line’s distinctive content terms include husband, aside, defiled. Its relationship to verses 19 and 21 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“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 command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;” The line’s distinctive content terms include aside, defiled, goeth. Its relationship to verses 28 and 30 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.