## Rashbam on Numbers Chapter 5

###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:2:1
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:2:1)

וישלחו מן המחנה - לאחר שנסדרו ונקבעו סדר המחנות וחנייתן, הוצרך לומר שילוח טמאים מן המחנות.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
וישלחו מן המחנה, after the Torah had described the procedures of encamping, it had to tell us that ritually impure people had to be removed from the camp(s).


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:6:1
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:6:1)

חטאת האדם - הכתובים בפרשת אשם גזילות בסוף פרשת ויקרא: וכחש וגו' בעמיתו בפקדון וגו' - ובשביל גזל הגר שאין לו גואל נשנית כאן.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
חטאת האדם, This is also because of גזל הגר, robbery from a convert who left no children after death and to whom no restitution can be made, nor to any of his non existent heirs. This is the reason why this has been repeated here.


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:7:1
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:7:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:7:1)

והשיב את אשמו - הקרן.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
והשיב את אשמו, the capital value minus the penalty.


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:8:1
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:8:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:8:1)

מלבד איל - האשם האמור בויקרא.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
מלבד איל, the eyl ha-asham mentioned in Leviticus 5,25, compare Rashi.


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:8:2
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:8:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:8:2)

האשם המושב - הקרן ישוב לכהנים.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
האשם המושב, the capital value, this will be returned (paid back to the priests who act as the deceased convert’s redeemer.)


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:9:1
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:9:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:9:1)

וכל תרומה - תרומת ראשית, שישראל מפריש ותרומת מעשר שהלוים מפרישים, המפורשין בפרשת שלח לך.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
וכל תרומה , the first tithe the Israelites set aside from their crops for the priests, as well as the ten per cent the Levites set aside for the priests from the tithe they had received from the ordinary Israelites as spelled out in Numbers chapter 18.


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:10:1
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:10:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:10:1)

איש אשר יתן לכהן - שיתנדב דבר הראוי לכהנים, כגון: חרמים וכיצא בהם.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
איש אשר יתן לכהן, something donated voluntarily which is appropriate to become the priest’s such as charamim, personal possessions sanctified to become the property of the Temple treasury.


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:10:2
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:10:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:10:2)

לו יהיה - כלומר: לכהן יתננו.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
לו יהיה, it will become the property of the priests officiating on that date.


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:10:3
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:10:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:10:3)

ומדרש אגדה: איש אשר יתן לכהן - מה שחייב ליתן לו. יהיה - לו ממון הרבה ולפי שמיותר הוא דרשו כן.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
An aggadic Midrash (B’rachot 63) the words איש אשר יתן לכהן mean that he who meticulously gives to the priest his due, will eventually find himself becoming rich. The Talmud derives this exegesis from the apparent redundancy of the words in our verse.


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:12:1
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:12:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:12:1)

כי תשטה - כי תסור, כדכתיב: שטה מעליה ושחטה שטים העמיקו.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
כי תשטה, she deviates from “the straight and narrow.” The word and its spelling is used by Solomon in this sense in Proverbs 4,15 שטה מעליו, “pass it by!” Compare also Hoseah 5,2 ושחטה שטים העמיקו, “people who detoured to escape the guards, etc.”


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:13:1
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:13:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:13:1)

ועד אין בה - שזינתה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
ועד אין בה, to testify that she had been guilty of adultery,


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:13:2
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:13:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:13:2)

והיא לא נתפשה - לא נאנסה, שאם הסתירוה באונס פטורה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
והיא לא נתפשה, she had not been raped. If she had been taken to a secret hideout and raped she is considered as being in the clear.


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:17:1
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:17:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:17:1)

מים קדשים - מי כיור.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
מים קדושים, the waters from the basin in front of the sanctuary.


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:21:1
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:21:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:21:1)

לאלה ולשבועה - כשמשביע אדם את חבירו יאמר: הנני משביעך בשם על זה הדבר, שאם תכזב בי תהיה מקולל, כאשה פלונית שצבתה בטנה ונפלה ירכה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
לאלה ולשבועה, as a curse and as an oath. When a person demands that someone confirms a statement he had made to him by an oath, he tells that person “swear to me that if what you have told me is false that you will become an accursed person.” The swelling of the Sotah’s belly and the collapse of her hips are signs of such a curse.


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:28:1
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:28:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:28:1)

ונזרעה זרע - תתעבר.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
ונזרעה זרע, she will become pregnant.


###### Rashbam on Numbers 5:31:1
[Rashbam on Numbers 5:31:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Numbers/r/5:31:1)

ונקה האיש מעון - אף על פי שגרם לה פורענות זו ע"י קנוי שקינא לה. ולי נראה: ונקה האיש מעון - שלא סבל אשתו להיות מזנה תחתיו ואילו שתק לא היה מנוקה מעון שהיא אסורה לו, אלא היא תשא את עונה שהרי זינתה, ולפיכך קבלה פורענותה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
ונקה האיש מעון, even though he had been responsible for his wife coming to such a tragic end due to his having been jealous of her. Personally, I think the Torah tries to tell us that if her husband had remained silent about his suspicions, he would have been guilty, whereas now he is not. Seeing that once he was suspicious of her fidelity he was forbidden to cohabit with her, he had no other option. Instead, היא תשא את עוונה, she will have to bear the burden of her guilt. Seeing that she had committed adultery she has to accept the consequences.