T. Reason: Because this is an offering for recalling guilt and remembering (appropriate) marital jealousy nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory. 16 The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Adonai ; 17 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water. 18 The priest shall set the woman before Adonai , and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse. 19 The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse. 20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:” 21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “Adonai make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Adonai allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell; 22 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen ·So be it, So be it·.”
Consider: This protects the woman because the man cannot simply divorce based on a hunch or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Adonai , and the priest shall execute on her all this Torah ·Teaching·. 31 The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’ ”
*5:2 Num 5:2 (Num 5:1-4) (#3.238): To send anyone who is unclean out of the camp and from the Holy Presence, that is the Sanctuary
†5:3 Num 5:3 (Num 5:2-3) (#3.239): T. Any male or female who is unclean must be put outside the camp / R. A Cohen ·Priest· who is unclean shall not enter any part of the Sanctuary / R. Impure people must not enter the Temple
‡5:7 Num 5:7 (Num 5:5-8) (#1.16): To confess before Adonai any sin that one has committed
§5:15 Num 5:15 (Num 5:11-31) (#7.467): Not to put olive oil on the grain offering of a woman suspected of adultery / Reason: Because this is an offering for recalling guilt and remembering (appropriate) marital jealousy
*5:15 Num 5:15 (Num 5:11-31) (#7.468): Not to put frankincense on the meal offering of a woman suspected of adultery T. Reason: Because this is an offering for recalling guilt and remembering (appropriate) marital jealousy
†5:30 Num 5:30 (Ex 34:14; Num 5:11-15, 5:29-30, 5:11-31) (#7.469): T. To deal with a woman suspected of adultery as prescribed in the Torah ·Teaching· / R. To fulfill the laws of the Sotah ·Wayward wife· / R. To fulfill the laws of marital jealousy Consider: This protects the woman because the man cannot simply divorce based on a hunch