
Episode 212: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Numbers
The Bible For Normal People
The Book of Numbers
The passage has been brought up, and understandably so, by pro choice advocates. It describes a legal procedure if a husband feels he has reason to suspect his wife of unfaithfulness. He is to bring her before the priest as a test of whether she was unfaithful or not. She is drink a concoction made up of dust from the floor of the tabernacle. If she is innocent, nothing happens. If guilty, then something happens. That may not be as much as we'd like to say, but it a big deal. We don't know that these silver amulets were based on the book of numbers,. In other words, i think you'd never forgive
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