The camp must remain pure. Again, the things that made them unclean were not their poor choices or deliberate sin, but the result of simply living in a sin-cursed world. These things defiled the camp if they were permitted to remain. The defilement could not be tolerated where God dwelt.
All of this may seem unjustly exclusionary, but given God’s holy nature, that is the way it has to be. Again, if we dwell on how unloving that seems, we are duped and drawn away by Satan as Eve was. The truth is, God’s intolerance of sin is one of the characteristics that makes Him wonderful. If sin and its effects can be removed from our eternal experience, that is good! Man’s sin and the resulting curse and all it brings were not part of God’s design or will for us; that uncleanness is not His problem unless He wants to persist in having a relationship with us. He is good to pursue that relationship and to give us a way to enjoy His presence despite our corruption from His design and purpose for us. Further, He is good to give us the information we need to take advantage of the opportunity to enjoy relationship with Him. Let us use the twisted thinking with which Satan wants to tempt us, as an opportunity to take our questions to God and allow Him to teach us the truth. Thus we can use Satan’s temptation in a way that will totally thwart him, to draw nearer to God by embracing the truth, knowing Him better, and glorifying Him!
We also don’t need to get hung up on the seeming injustice of the provisions of the Law giving all the rights to the husband and none to the wife if her husband were unfaithful. The provisions in the Law for divorce give the husband rights to put away his wife, but do not speak to the woman divorcing her husband. Perhaps this was because in that time a woman had little hope of survival, let alone a meaningful life, if she left her husband, because she had no way to earn her living. The provision for detecting adultery protected women from being “put away” unjustly, which doomed them to a poor reputation and an unfulfilling life despite their innocence. It also protected a husband from being duped into raising another man’s child as his own. The matter would be revealed by God in the ritual which would represent a husband’s asking for revelation and which would demonstrate faith in God’s all-knowing character and willingness to reveal the truth. Hidden sin would be found out and weeded out.
Does it speak to you at all about our relationship with Jesus being described as Jesus as the bridegroom and us as the bride?
A Nazirite was one who had made vows of devotion to God, like a monk or nun. The Law didn’t require such, but made provision and established guidelines for one who wanted to express his love for Him by devoting himself to God. One key provision was that they dedicated themselves to God for only a specified period of time. Once again, we see that this type of worship had to be offered God’s way and not in any way man desired.