Numbers 5:28

But if the woman has not made herself unclean by being unfaithful and is clean, she will not experience this punishment and she will still be able to have children.

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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

27After he has made her drink the water, if she has made herself unclean and has been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that curses will cause her bitter pain. Her belly will swell up and her thighs will shrink. She will become a cursed woman among her people.

29This is the rule to follow in cases of jealousy when a wife has an affair and makes herself unclean while married to her husband,

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Cross References

Psalms 113:9He makes the childless woman happy in her home by giving her children. Praise the Lord!

2 Corinthians 4:17These trivial troubles we have only last for a little while, but they produce for us an ever-increasing degree 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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