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Numbers 5:8-10

The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:8-10

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commentaryMatthew Henry on Numbers 5:1-10The camp was to be cleansed. The purity of the church must be kept as carefully as the peace and order of it. Every polluted Israelite must be separated. The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable. The greater…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Unclean to Be Removed. (b. c. 1490.)THE UNCLEAN TO BE REMOVED. (B. C. 1490.) 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 bod…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:5-10CONSCIENCE MONEY This precept is a continuation of the one laid down in the preceding verses, and, like it, admonishes the people regarding the purity which ought to prevail in a camp honoured with the presence of the H…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:5-10NO FRAUD PERMITTED BY GOD We have here, as part of the moral law of God which changeth not, the duty of making confession of, and satisfaction for, any wrong done to another, and the duty of not withholding what is righ…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:5-8CONFESSION AND RESTITUTION These trespasses are explained and illustrated in Le Numbers 6:1-7. In both passages provision is made for confession, restitution, interest, and atonement—in Leviticus the atonement being spo…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:8If the man have no kinsman. No goel, or personal representative. This supposes that the wronged man himself is dead, and it is an addition to the law of restitution as given in Leviticus 6:1-30, an addition clearly nece…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:9Every offering. Hebrew, terumah, heave offering (Exodus 29:28). Septuagint, ἀπαρχὴ. Those offerings, or portions of offerings, which were not consumed on the altar, but "presented" at the altar. Having been offered, t…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 5:10Every man's hallowed things. Dedicatory offerings, such as first-fruits, not exactly of the nature of sacrifices. His, i.e; the priest's. Whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his. A general principle, inclu…Joseph S. Exell and contributors