Numbers 5:13

Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

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

12Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,

14If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion, The spirit of jealousy, etc... This ordinance was designed to clear the innocent, and to prevent jealous husbands from doing mischief to their wives: as likewise to give all a horror of adultery, by punishing it in so remarkable a manner.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:20Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.

Proverbs 7:18Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.

Proverbs 30:20Such also is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith: 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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