Yesterday we looked at
the sometimes-controversial fifth chapter of Numbers, in which God gives
instructions about how a jealous husband should deal with a wife thought to
have committed adultery.
The confusion this chapter produces in modern women reading it for the first time is really quite
entertaining. Brought up to believe unquestioningly in “equality” of every
possible sort, they quickly look around for the parallel chapter in which a
wife could take her husband to the priest and have him tested for adultery. The
less-experienced Bible students are shocked to find it doesn’t exist.
The world was a different place in those days, especially in the nation of Israel. Some things
have changed. Some have not.