Numbers 5:28

And if the isha be not defiled, but be tehorah (clean); then she shall be free, and shall conceive zera.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 when he hath made her to drink the mayim, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass + 5:27 i.e., been unfaithful against her ish, that the mayim hame'ararim shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall waste away; and the isha shall become a curse among her people.

29This is the torat hakena'ot (law of jealousy), when an isha goeth astray to another instead of her ish, and is defiled;

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Cross References

Psalms 113:9He settleth the akeret (barren woman) in her bais 1 to be a happy em of banim. 1 Praise ye Hashem.

2 Corinthians 4:17For our present momentary tzoros is preparing us for an eternal weight of kavod (glory) utterly beyond measure, + 4:17 Ps 30:5; Ro 8:17-18

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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