The Lord # 48
48. 2. Since our life varies depending on our state, “spirit” means the variable attitude we take toward life. For example:
a. Living wisely.
Bezalel was filled with the spirit of wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge. (Exodus 31:3)
You shall speak to all who are wise at heart, everyone whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom. (Exodus 28:3)
Joshua was filled with the spirit of wisdom. (Deuteronomy 34:9)
Nebuchadnezzar said of Daniel that [the spirit of the holy gods was in him]. (Daniel 4:8)
[Belshazzar’s queen said of Daniel that] there was an excellent spirit of knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom in him. (Daniel 5:12)
Those who go astray in spirit will know intelligence. (Isaiah 29:24)
[2] b. Living [under the influence of some particular] inspiration.
Jehovah has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. (Jeremiah 51:11)
Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. (Haggai 1:14)
I am putting the spirit into the king of Assyria [to cause him] to hear a rumor and return to his own land. (Isaiah 37:7)
Jehovah hardened the spirit of King Sihon. (Deuteronomy 2:30)
What is rising up in your spirit will never happen. (Ezekiel 20:32)
[3] c. Living in a state of freedom.
The four beasts seen by the prophet, which were angel guardians, went wherever the spirit wanted to go. (Ezekiel 1:12, 20)
[4] d. Living in fear, sorrow, or anger.
... so that every heart will melt, all hands will slacken, and every spirit will recoil. (Ezekiel 21:7)
My spirit has fainted within me; my heart is stupefied inside me. (Psalms 142:3; Psalms 143:4)
My spirit is wasting away. (Psalms 143:7)
I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit. (Daniel 7:15)
The spirit of Pharaoh was disturbed. (Genesis 41:8)
Nebuchadnezzar said, “My spirit is troubled.” (Daniel 2:3)
I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit. (Ezekiel 3:14)
[5] e. Living in subjection to various evil mental states.
... who has no guile in his spirit. (Psalms 32:2)
Jehovah has mixed together in their midst a spirit of perversities. (Isaiah 19:14)
[The Lord Jehovih] says, “[Woe] to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit.” (Ezekiel 13:3)
The prophet is foolish; the man of the spirit is insane. (Hosea 9:7)
Keep watch over your spirit, and do not act treacherously. (Malachi 2:16)
A spirit of whoredom has led them astray. (Hosea 4:12)
There is a spirit of whoredom in their midst. (Hosea 5:4)
When a spirit of jealousy has come over him... (Numbers 5:14)
A man who is a wanderer in spirit and speaks lies... (Micah 2:11)
... a generation whose spirit was not constant with God... (Psalms 78:8)
He has poured a spirit of sleepiness over them. (Isaiah 29:10)
Conceive chaff and give birth to stubble. As for your spirit, fire will devour you. (Isaiah 33:11)
[6] f. Living in subjection to hell.
I will make the unclean spirit depart from the land. (Zechariah 13:2)
When an unclean spirit goes out of someone, it wanders through dry places, and then recruits seven spirits worse than itself, and they come in and live there. (Matthew 12:43-45)
Babylon has become a refuge for every unclean spirit. (Revelation 18:2)
[7] g. Then there are the hellish spirits by whom we are tormented: Matthew 8:16; 10:1; 12:43-45; Mark 1:23-28; 9:17-29; Luke 4:33, 36; 6:17-18; 7:21; 8:2, 29; 9:39, 42, 55; 11:24-26; 13:11; Revelation 13:15; 16:13-14.
Numbers 5
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.
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Both you shall put male and female outside of the camp; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell."
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The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Speak to the children of Israel: 'When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty;
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then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.
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But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.
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Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.
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Every man's holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.'"
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,
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and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;
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and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled:
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then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
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The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh;
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and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.
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The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
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The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
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But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"
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then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, "Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;
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and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away." The woman shall say, "Amen, Amen."
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"'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.
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He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.
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The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.
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The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
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When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.
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If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
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"'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;
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or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.
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The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.'"
