Numbers 5:25

The priest shall take back from her the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord, and take it to the altar.

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In The King James Version

Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:

In Context

24He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that curses, and it will cause her bitter pain if she is guilty.

26Then the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as a reminder portion and burn it on the altar, and make the woman drink the water.

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Cross References

Exodus 29:24Give all of them to Aaron and his sons to wave before the Lord as a wave offering.

Numbers 5:15he is to take her before the priest. He is also to take with him on her behalf an offering of one tenth of an ephath of barley flour. He must also bring for her an offering of an ephath of barley flour. He's not to pour olive oil over it or put frankincense on it, since it's a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder offering to remind people about sin.

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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