Numbers (Adults)

Numbers Chapter 5

Lesson written by Brian Andrews

Chapter 5

Check your reading:

1. Who was to be sent outside the camp from vv.1-3?
   
   
   
2. What was to be done when a person commits sin against another?
   
   
   
3. What scenarios would a man bring his wife to the priest (vv.11-15)?
   
   
   
4. Describe the “fidelity test”.  What was the result if guilty? If innocent?
   
   
   

Class discussion:

1. God shows in v.6 that when his people sinned against each other they were acting
      unfaithfully towards him.  Is this characteristic of God continued in the new covenant?
   
   
   
   
   
2. A husband’s jealousy and a wife’s infidelity are not issues unique to time of Numbers and to
      the Israelite nation.  Marital jealousy and infidelity are sins present in every society and
      every time.  What is the best method to discover and handle these issues under the new
      covenant?