“Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:”
Cross references: : Lev. 13:3 Lev. 15:2 Lev. 21:1
“Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.”
There were three manner of tents: of the Lord, of the Levites, and of the Israelites. Or, in a place out of the host.
“Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;”
Commit any fault willingly. Lev. 6:3
“But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.”
If he be dead to whom the wrong is done, and also have no kinsman.
“And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his. offering: or, heave offering”
Lev. 10:12 Or, things offered to the Lord, as firstfruits, etc.
“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,”
By breaking the band of marriage, and playing the harlot.
“And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:”
Hebrew, If the spirit of jealousy come upon him.
“Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.”
Or, making the sin known, and not purging it. Only in the sin offering, and so this offering of jealousy were neither oil nor incense offered.
“And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:”
Which also is called the water of purification or sprinkling, read Num. 19:9 .
“And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:”
It was so called by the effect, because it declared the woman to be accursed, and turned to her destruction.
“Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; rot: Heb. fall”
Hebrew, to fall . Both because she had committed so heinous a fault, and forsware herself in denying the same.
“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 woman shall say, Amen, amen.”
That is, be it so, as thou wishest, as Ps. 41:23 ; Deut. 27:15 .
“And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:”
Shall wash the curses, which are written, into the water in the vessel.
“And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.”
Where the incense was offered. Or, perfume.
“Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.”
The man might accuse his wife upon suspicion, and not be reproved.