Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:1-10
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 bodies, until they were cleansed according to the law, Num 5:2, Num 5:3.
1. These orders are executed immediately, Num 5:4. (1.) The camp was now newly-modelled and put in order, and therefore, to complete the reformation of it, it is next to be cleansed. Note, The purity of the church must be as carefully consulted and preserved as the peace and order of it. It is requisite, not only that every Israelite be confined to his own standard, but that every polluted Israelite be separated from it. The wisdom from above is fi…
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every offering . . . shall be his--Whatever was given in this way, or otherwise, as by freewill offerings, irrevocably belonged to the priest.
John Gill on Numbers 5:10
And every man's hallowed things shall be his,.... Which he, by a vow or freewill offering, separates to holy uses; these are at his own dispose, to give to what priest he will, or they are the priest's; for what a man devotes to the Lord is to be given to them, or such things as God has hallowed, sanctified, and set apart for sacred uses, as the firstfruits and tithes, they were the priests'; the Jewish writers (i) restrain it to tithes:
whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his; his personally, who officiates, or to whom the gift is given, and is not to be divided among the other priests in the course.
(i) Targ. Jon. Siphri & Midrash in Jarchi in loc.
John Calvin on Numbers 5:9-10
Numbers 5:9, 10
9. And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
9. Omnis oblatio sanctificationum in filiis Israel, sacerdoti quam efferent erit ipsius.
10. And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
10. Qued quisque sanctificaverit sacerdotis erit, et tradetur in manum ejus.
9. And every offering. Thus far I have brought together the passages, in which Moses treats of the office of the priests, and have briefly expounded them, I will now begin to treat of their rights, i.e., of the honor which God invested them with, that He might have them ready and cheerf…
