Numbers 5:28

And if the woman has not been defiled, and is clean, then she has been acquitted, and has been sown [with] seed.

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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

27indeed, he has caused her to drink the water, and it has come to pass, if she has been defiled and commits a trespass against her husband, that the waters which cause the curse have gone into her for bitter things, and her belly has swelled, and her thigh has fallen, and the woman has become an execration in the midst of her people.

29This [is] the law of jealousies when a wife turns aside under her husband and has been defiled,

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Cross References

Psalms 113:9Causing the barren one of the house to sit, || A joyful mother of sons; praise YAH!

2 Corinthians 4:17for the momentary light matter of our tribulation works out for us more and more an exceedingly continuous weight 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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