Biblical Reading and Reflection: Numbers 5
Alastair's Adversaria
The Role of Jealousy in Marriage
The ritual of jealousy served to arrest the cycle of jealousy before it could be expressed in a husband's violent abuse or the violence of the lynch mob. The right involved no human judgment whatsoever. Put everything into god's hands and would only operate through divine action. Such a ritual held te potential or possibly salvaging marriages that might founder on the rocks of suspicion.
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