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Uncleanness, Jealousy, Curse of Infidelity
By Apostle Janice L. Williams
WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY FOR WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 24-31 to April 7-14-21-28, 2021
Palm Sunday & the first day of Holy Week 2021 will begin on Sunday, March 28
and ends on
Saturday, April 3
HOLY WEEK IS THE LAST WEEK OF LENT. IT BEGINS WITH PALM SUNDAY; THE SUNDAY IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING RESURRECTION SUNDAY {AKA EASTER}. IT IS OBSERVED IN MANY CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AS A TIME TO COMMEMORATE AND ENACT THE SUFFERING (PASSION) AND DEATH OF JESUS THROUGH VARIOUS OBSERVANCES AND WORSHIP SERVICES.
{YOU CAN REVIEW THE EXPLANATION FOR PALM SUNDAY IN WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #121 "ABOUT ASH WEDNESDAY AND LENT" .}
Good Friday Observance is April 2, 2021. Let's Review: WBS #123 ABOUT DEATH & RESURRECTION
For Holy Communion Scriptures see: # 15/"THE LORD'S SUPPER-HOLY COMMUNION" WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY
Passover 2021 began in the evening of
Saturday, March 27
and ends in the evening of
Sunday, April 4
PASSOVER: a festival celebrated by Jews lasting for 7 or 8 days in memory of the exodus of the Hebrew Slaves [Israelites] from captivity in Egypt.
RESURRECTION SUNDAY,
April 4, 2021
As we have done annually for the past 10 years, Let's Review:
NUMBERS 5 NOG
Removing Unclean People from the Camp
5 Yahweh said to Moses, 2 “Command the Israelites to send outside the camp anyone who has a serious skin disease or a discharge or anyone who is unclean[a] from touching a dead body. 3 Send all of these unclean men and women outside the camp. They must not make this camp where I live among you unclean.” 4 So the Israelites did as Yahweh had told Moses. They sent these unclean people outside the camp.
Confessing and Paying for Sins
5 Yahweh said to Moses, 6 “Tell the Israelites: If you do something wrong to another person, you have been unfaithful to Yahweh. When you realize your guilt, 7 you must confess your sin, pay in full for what you did wrong, add one-fifth to it, and give it to the person who was wronged. 8 But there may be no heir to whom the payment can be made. In that case, the payment for what you did wrong must be given to Yahweh for the priest to use. This payment is in addition to the ram which makes peace with the Lord.
9 “Any contribution over and above the holy offerings that the Israelites bring to the priest will belong to the priest. 10 Each person’s holy offerings will belong to that person, but whatever is given to the priest will belong to the priest.”
When a Husband Suspects That His Wife Has Been Unfaithful
11 Yahweh said to Moses: 12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: A man’s wife may have been unfaithful to him 13 and may have had sexual intercourse with another man without her husband’s knowledge. She may have kept it secret if there were no witnesses to accuse her and she wasn’t caught in the act.
14 “A husband may have a fit of jealousy and suspect his wife, whether she was actually unfaithful or not. 15 He must then take his wife to the priest along with eight cups of barley flour as an offering for her. He must not pour olive oil on the flour or put frankincense on it, since it is a grain offering brought because of the husband’s jealousy, an offering used for a confession—to remind someone of a sin that was committed.
16 “The priest will have the woman come forward and stand in Yahweh’s presence. 17 Then the priest will take holy water in a piece of pottery and put some dust from the floor of the tent into the water. 18 The priest will bring the woman into Yahweh’s presence and loosen her hair. In her hands he will put the offering used for a confession (that is, the grain offering brought because of the husband’s jealousy). The priest will hold in his hands the bitter water that can bring a curse.[b]
19 “Then the priest will say to her, ‘If no other man has had sexual intercourse with you and you haven’t been unfaithful to your husband, you’re not guilty. This bitter water that can bring a curse will not harm you. 20 If, in fact, you have been unfaithful and have had sexual intercourse with another man, 21 may Yahweh make you an example for your people to see what happens when the curse of this oath comes true: Yahweh will make your uterus drop and your stomach swell.’[c]
“Then the priest will administer the oath and the curse by saying: 22 ‘May this water that can bring a curse go into your body and make your stomach swell and your uterus drop!’
“Then the woman will say, ‘Amen, amen!’
23 “The priest will write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water. 24 Then he will have the woman drink the bitter water that can bring the curse. This water will go into her and become bitter. 25 The priest will take the grain offering she was holding, present it to Yahweh, and bring it to the altar. 26 The priest will take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar. Then he will have the woman drink the water. 27 If she has become unclean by being unfaithful to her husband, the water that can bring the curse will go into her and become bitter. Her stomach will swell, her uterus will drop, and she will become cursed among her people. 28 But if the woman is not unclean and is pure, she is not guilty and will be able to have children.
29 “These are the instructions for how to deal with jealousy. They tell you what to do when a woman is unfaithful to her husband and becomes unclean. 30 They also tell you what to do when a husband has a fit of jealousy and is suspicious of his wife. He will make his wife stand in Yahweh’s presence, and the priest will do everything these instructions tell him to do. 31 The husband isn’t guilty of doing anything wrong, but the woman will suffer the consequences of her sin.”
Lets take a look again at Jesus liberating women over 2000 years ago at: WBS #173/GENESIS 38 JUDAH MARRIES A CANAANITE WOMAN-JUDAH FATHERS TWIN SONS BY HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, TAMAR
Footnotes
a. Numbers 5:2 “Unclean” refers to anything that is not presentable to God.
b. Numbers 5:18 In this verse and the following verses there is a play on words between the Hebrew words hammarîm (bitter) and hameʿaraîm (that can bring a curse).
c. Numbers 5:21 Or “make you have miscarriages and become sterile.”
REMEMBER THE NEW TESTAMENT COVENANT, NO MORE CURSES!
Galatians 3:13 NLT 13 But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.
{Confirmation for, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree" see: Deuteronomy 21:23}
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