Numbers 5:16

Therefore, the priest shall offer it, and he shall set it in the sight of the Lord.

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In The King James Version

And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:

In Context

15he shall bring her to the priest, and he shall offer an oblation for her, a tenth part of native barley meal. He shall not pour oil over it, nor shall he place frankincense on it, because it is a sacrifice for jealousy, or an oblation investigating adultery.

17And he shall take up holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth from the pavement of the tabernacle into it.

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Cross References

Leviticus 1:3if his offering will be a holocaust, as well as from the herd, he shall offer an immaculate male at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, to make himself pleasing to the Lord.

Hebrews 13:4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

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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