Numbers 5:28

But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and having despised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go through her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse, and an example to all the people.

29This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled,

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Cross References

Psalms 113:9Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.

2 Corinthians 4:17For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation, worketh for us above measure exceedingly an eternal 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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