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Bible study · Numbers 5

Numbers 5: In the midst of which I dwell

Read Numbers 5 before you meet.

In a few lines

Numbers 5 calls a wrong done to another person a trespass "against the LORD" and asks for confession as well as full repayment with a fifth added (5:6-7). Its hardest law is written for an innocent wife as well as a guilty one (5:14), and brings what no one saw "before the LORD" (5:16). All of it keeps a camp where the LORD says, "I dwell" (5:3).

The verse to carry

“You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”

Numbers 5:3

To talk about

  1. 1. The LORD called Israel's camp "their camp, in the midst of which I dwell" (5:3). How would it change the way you treat the people around you if you took seriously that God is present among his people?

  2. 2. Numbers 5 asks for confession and for repaying what was taken, with a fifth added (5:7). Why do you think it matters to put a wrong right with the person, and not only to be sorry?

  3. 3. The law brought a matter no one had witnessed (5:13) "before the LORD" (5:16, 5:30). What do you do with a suspicion about someone that you can't prove, and what would it look like to bring it to God?

Prayer requests