Numbers 5:13

but neither he nor anyone else knows if it is true or not, because no one saw her doing that.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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;

In Context

12“Tell this to the Israeli people: ‘Suppose a man thinks that his wife has slept with another man,

14But if the woman’s husband is jealous, and if he suspects that she has committed adultery, and he wants to know whether that is true or not,

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:20“Do not ◄defile yourself/make yourself unacceptable to me► by having sex with someone else’s wife.

Proverbs 7:18Come with me; let us enjoy having sex until tomorrow morning. Let’s enjoy making love.

Proverbs 30:20This is what a woman who ◄is not faithful to/does not have sex only with► her husband does: She commits adultery [EUP], and then bathes and says, “I have not done anything that is wrong!”

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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