Numbers 5:28

But if the woman have not been polluted, and be clean, then shall she be guiltless and shall conceive 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

27And it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have altogether escaped the notice of her husband, then the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her; and she shall swell in her belly, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shall be for a curse in the midst of her people.

29This is the law of jealousy, wherein a married woman should happen to transgress, and be defiled;

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Cross References

Psalms 113:9Not to us, O Lord, not to us, 1 But to thy name give glory, 1 Because of thy mercy and thy truth; 1

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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