Read Numbers 5:11-31 at Bible Gateway.
The Teaching Tools of Scripture
Genesis 1:1-2:3, The Teaching Tools of Scripture, part one and part two
Genesis 6, And the Strong Themes Teaching Tool
Genesis 1:1-6:8, Finding the Topic Themes of Scripture
Hebrew paragraph divisions
5:11-31 {p} Law of a jealous husband and an unfaithful wife
Strong themes of the parashah
None this week.
Numbers 5:11-31 Chiastic structure
Download the fully expanded Numbers 5:1-31 Triennial Ki testeh chiasm pdf (Coming …).
Theme of the parashah
The law of a jealous husband and an unfaithful wife.
Finding Messiah in Triennial Ki testeh
The above chiastic structure reveals a prophecy of Messiah. How?
The Israelites encountered the water of bitterness at Marah.
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter, therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” And he cried unto YHVH; and YHVH showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet; there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them. Exo 15:23-25
We saw this same prophetic picture of Messiah in Exo 13:17-15:26. Recall that the Hebrew word for “tree” is Strong’s H6086, a tree, wood, plank, or gallows. The same word is used in the Torah command which Paul quotes in Gal 3:13,
Messiah has redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, ‘Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree.’ Gal 3:13, from Deu 21:23
The tree is the cross, which turns our bitterness into sweetness, and here, the central axis proclaims a second time freedom from the bitter water that brings a curse.
Additional readings for this parashah
Psa 96 (my notes) | Hos 4 (my notes) | 2 Pet 2 (my notes)
Studies in Triennial Ki testeh
Numbers 5, Bible for Beginners
Numbers 4:21-7:89, Paragraph divisions and chiastic structures
Numbers 4:21-7:89, Chiastic structure
Numbers 5 and 6, The law of jealousy and the Nazirite
Off-site Studies
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SCRIPTURE REVEALED SERIES by CHRISTINE MILLER
THE LAW of LOVE | FINDING MESSIAH in TORAH | NUMBERS in CHIASTIC STRUCTURE
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