Numbers 5:28

But if she is clean she will be free and will have offspring.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

In Context

27And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

29This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;

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Cross References

Psalms 113:9He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:17For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:12-31

The Bitter Water of Jealousy. ( b. c. 1490.) 11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; 14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of… Read the whole commentary →

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