| Lesson 31: The Law Of The Old That Is Covered In the New Testament: The Curse On Adulteress Woman 2/22/2014 by turtle Numbers 5:11-31 KJV (11) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, (12) Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, (13) 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, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; (14) 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: (15) 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. (16) And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: (17) 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: (18) 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: (19) 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 not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: (20) But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: (21) 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; (22) 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. (23) And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: (24) And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. (25) Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar: (26) 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. (27) And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. (28) And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. (29) This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled; (30) Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. (31) Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity. Barnes Notes Commentary implies this custom of this curse on women came from probably ancient Egypt. This was to protect both the woman from the false accusation of adultery. This is still a practice in Africa today according to the commentary. However not sure how old this commentary is. One has to remember at the time of Abraham when there was a famine Abraham had gone to Egypt and their he deceived a king concerning His wife who was also his half sister by having Sarah his wife tell them she was his sister and not wife also. This caused a plague to come to the king. Plague was lifted when Sarah was returned to Abraham. Was this why the curse was established in Egypt, one has to wonder how it was performed and carried out. Yet it was Egyptian law that was then performed in the temple of God. Yet if the woman was guilty of adultery she be taken from the temple because she had defiled it by her sin of adultery. This custom was a curse to women because a husband could do this to a wife and legally divorce her. When Joseph consider putting Mary mother of Jesus in the New Testament away this is how this custom would have been performed. If Mary had gone before the court of the temple this custom would have been done to her. She would then be found out to be telling the truth of the conception by the Holy Spirit. Joseph then would be taking Mary to be His wife under these terms. If God had blessed through immaculate conception who would argue. Yet does it change one view to know it was but dust in the water. A tactic use to psychologically terrify a woman into confession, or to prove her innocents, a tactic still used today in court by lawyers in theory. Using something to induce a confession out of someone on the witness stand. It is a old tactic. Yet because this water was said to cause immediate results and probably did, much like in countries of witchdoctors, no doubt a confession could be beaten out of a women, unless she was innocent. A women caught in adultery would be silence and put out of temple, as well as divorced. A curse would be on the woman, but she would live because her husband allowed it. He could have her publicly stoned. The question that has to be answer and no can truly answer it, but scripture declares that if the woman privates rotted she was guilty and it happened to her immediately. Only God could allow this happen immediately. Only this type of change can not be witchcraft unless psychological induce by being guilty and not knowing the drink could not harm a person. Thus confession were made and women were divorced from their husband. Jesus broke the curse of adultery when he asked those surrounding a women caught in adultery, who had sinned cast the first stone. The women freed. The women freed because her accusers were brought to shame. Both man and woman caught in adultery were worthy of death by Jewish law. Yet Jesus set the women free caught in adultery, the bondage those change broken, no longer a curse or a reproach, but she was even told by Jesus to go and sin no more. Why could Jesus teach against the law of stoning because it was Egyptian practice prior to Jewish culture. Something adopted into their faith and practice. This is not a spiritual law but a physical law. The act of spiritual adultery is forgivable by God. Are you willing now to repent or be cursed by spiritual adultery to God. Spiritual adultery is worship of idols or putting other things before God. Dear Heavenly Father free those in spiritual adultery today from a yoke of bondage of sin. May they truly find the saving grace through Christ Jesus. In Jesus precious name, Amen. http://www.turtle30cshell.com _ |
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