Numbers 5:29

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

In Context

28But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children.

30And the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her before the Lord, and the priest do to her according to all things that are here written:

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Cross References

Leviticus 7:11This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that is offered to the Lord.

Leviticus 13:59This is the law touching the leprosy of any woollen or linen garment, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skins, how it ought to be cleansed, or pronounced unclean.

Leviticus 15:32This is the law of him that hath the issue of seed, and that is defiled by copulation.

Numbers 5:15He 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.

Isaiah 5:7dummy verses inserted by amos

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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