Numbers 5:30

+ 5:30. Num 5:30 (Ex 34:14; Num 5:11-15, 5:29-30, 5:11-31) (#7.469): T. To deal with a woman suspected of adultery as prescribed in the Torah ·Teaching· / R. To fulfill the laws of the Sotah ·Wayward wife· / R. To fulfill the laws of marital jealousy Consider: This protects the woman because the man cannot simply divorce based on a hunch or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Adonai, and the priest shall execute on her all this Torah ·Teaching·.

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Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

In Context

29“‘This is the Torah ·Teaching· of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;

31The man shall be free from depravity (moral evil), and that woman shall bear her depravity (moral evil).’”

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Numbers 5:14and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is not defiled:

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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