Numbers 5:29

This 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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This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

In Context

28But if the woman is not defiled and if she is clean, then she must be free. She will be able to conceive children.

30It is the law for a man with a spirit of jealousy when he is jealous of his wife. He must bring the woman before Yahweh, and the priest must do to her everything that this law of jealousy describes.

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Cross References

Leviticus 7:11This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which people will offer to Yahweh.

Leviticus 13:59This is the law about mildew in a garment of wool or linen, or anything woven or knitted from wool or linen material, or leather or anything made with leather, so that you may pronounce it clean or unclean.”

Leviticus 15:32These are the regulations for anyone who has a flow of fluid, for any man whose semen goes out of him and makes him unclean,

Numbers 5:15In such cases, the man must bring his wife to the priest. The husband must take an offering required on her behalf, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He must pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering for remembering, as a reminder of the iniquity.

Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, 1 and the man of Judah his pleasant planting; 1 he waited for justice, but instead, there was killing; for righteousness, but, instead, a shout for help. 1

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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