Thursday, July 6, 2023

The way to solve camp unclean and jealousy come over husband and his wife

Numbers 5:1-31

The Lord said to Moses, Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body. Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.” The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the Lord had instructed Moses.

The Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any man or woman who wrongs another in any way and so is unfaithful to the Lord is guilty and must confess the sin they have committed. They must make full restitution for the wrong they have done, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the person they have wronged.  But if that person has no close relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the Lord and must be given to the priest, along with the ram with which atonement is made for the wrongdoer.

Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),  and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure—  then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[c] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.

The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.  He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her. The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to the altar. The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial[e] offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water.  If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.  If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.

Why?

Anyone who wrongs another in any way must make full restitution for the wrong they have done, add a fifth of the value to it.

This is the penalty for our wrongdoing.

The Lord is our judge, so husband and wife come to the priest let the Lord be their judgment. No one knows but the Lord knows who is right or wrong.

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神與人的關係及人與人的關係,如的夫妻關係一樣不可有嫌隙、懷疑,人要聖潔,不要有污穢。

神要人守貞潔,如夫妻關係。以懷孕比喻,表示生命得以延續。

大痲瘋表示人是有罪,罪會不斷擴散。患漏症代表生命的流失,碰屍體表示和罪的最後就是死亡,和罪有關連。

讓別人有財務損失的,還要加1/5,即賠120%。人要先承認所犯的罪,賠償,然後才能去獻祭。不是祭物的關係,而是人先有悔改的心。

以妻子可能不潔淨為例,指的是一切人之間的誤會,懷疑、不信任。婦女懷孕代表祝福,地位也改變了。若是有罪,肚子也變大,卻不是懷孕,站立不穩。

為什麼當時沒有來試驗丈夫的手續。聖經不是改變當時的文化,習俗,人在神的手中,任何攻擊、誣陷,神都會為他伸冤。

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How?

Bring everything before the Lord, the Lord is my way, my strength and my salvation, and wisdom.



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