Numbers 5:13

by sleeping with someone else. It may be that her husband doesn't find out and her unclean act wasn't witnessed—she wasn't caught out.

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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

12“Tell the Israelites that these are the instructions to follow if a man's wife has an affair, being unfaithful to him

14But if her husband becomes jealous and suspicious of his wife, whether she's guilty or not,

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:20Don't commit any sex act with any other man's wife. This would pollute you and make you unclean.

Proverbs 7:18Come with me, let's make love until the morning. Let's enjoy one another in our love-making!

Proverbs 30:20This is the way of a woman who commits adultery: she eats, she wipes her mouth, and then says, “I haven't done anything wrong!”

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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