Numbers 5:28

But if the woman is not defiled and if she is clean, then she must be free. She will be able to conceive children.

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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

27When he gives her the water to drink, if she is defiled because she has committed a sin against her husband, then the water that brings the curse will enter her and become bitter. Her abdomen will swell and her thigh will waste away. The woman will be cursed among her people.

29This is the law of jealousy. It is the law for a woman who strays away from her husband and is defiled.

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Cross References

Psalms 113:9He gives a home to the barren woman of the house, 1 he makes her a joyful mother of children. 1 Praise Yahweh!

2 Corinthians 4:17For this momentary, light affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory that exceeds all measurement.

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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