Numbers 5:29

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

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In The King James Version

This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

In Context

28But if the woman have not been polluted, and be clean, then shall she be guiltless and shall conceive seed.

30or in the case of a man on whomsoever the spirit of jealousy should come, and he should be jealous of his wife, and he should place his wife before the Lord, and the priest shall execute toward her all this law.

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Cross References

Leviticus 7:11This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offering, which they shall bring to the Lord.

Leviticus 13:59This is the law of the plague of leprosy of a woolen or linen garment, either of the warp, or woof, or any leathern article, to pronounce it clean or unclean.

Leviticus 15:32This is the law of the man who has an issue, and if one discharge seed of copulation, so that he should be polluted by it.

Numbers 5:15then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring his gift for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal: he shall not pour oil upon it, neither shall he put frankincense upon it; for it is a sacrifice of jealousy, a sacrifice of memorial, recalling sin to remembrance.

Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his beloved plant: I expected it to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.

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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