Numbers 5:29

“‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,

World Messianic Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

28If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.

30or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.

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Cross References

Leviticus 7:11“‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to the LORD:

Leviticus 13:59This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

Leviticus 15:32This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean by it;

Numbers 5:15then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an efah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.

Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

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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