Numbers 5:13

will have slept with another man, and if her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and if it cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not caught in the shameful act,

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In The King James Version

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;

In Context

12“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: The man whose wife will have gone astray, and, disdaining her husband,

14if the spirit of jealousy stirs up the husband against his wife, who either has been polluted or is being assailed with a false suspicion,

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:20You shall not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, nor shall you be defiled by the mingling of seed.

Proverbs 7:18Come, let us be inebriated in abundance, and let us delight in the embraces of desire, until the day begins to dawn.

Proverbs 30:20Such is the way also of an adulterous woman, who eats, and wiping her mouth, says: “I have done no evil.”

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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