Numbers 5:16

The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 shall offer an oblation for her, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon, nor put frank- incense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery.

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

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Cross References

Leviticus 1:3If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lord favourable to him:

Hebrews 13:4Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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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