Numbers 5:27
When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed an unfaithful act against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.
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28If the woman is not defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.
Cross References
Numbers 5:20But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:”
Psalms 83:9Do to them as you did to Midian [Strife], 2 as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; 1
Proverbs 5:4But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, 2 and as sharp as a two-edged sword. 1
Isaiah 65:15You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; 2 and 'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh] will kill you. 1 He will call his servants by another name, 2
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 →