Today we begin Numbers Chapter 6. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. Broadly speaking, Numbers Chapter 6 can be nicely divided up into two parts. The first part (the first 21 verses) introduce the office of the Nazarite. The second part (the last 5 verses) gives us […]

A lot of people take issue every time I say that adultery is based only on the marital status of the woman. Yet it is true. A married man sleeping with an unmarried woman is NOT adultery per Torah definition. And there are plenty of scholarly resources that support what I am saying is true, […]

There are a couple of ways tradition had veered away from the Torah and altered the consequences for committing adultery by Yeshua’s time. The first major difference is that only women needed to fear the accusation of adultery. This was wrong. Let’s revisit Leviticus 20:10 “If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife,  that […]

Okay, today we’re going to finish up our analysis of the story of the woman accused of adultery in John 8. So where are we at? Let’s get our bearings here. When the accusers brought the alleged adulteress to Yeshua, understand that the statement “she was caught in the act” is key. They were demanding […]

“This is the law of jealousy: when a wife, being under the authority of her husband, goes astray and defiles herself, or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he shall then make the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest shall apply all this […]