Numbers 5:29

This is the lawe of gelousie, if a womman bowith awei fro hir hosebonde, and is defoulid,

Wycliffe (portions)

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

28That if sche is not pollutid, sche schal be harmeles, and schal brynge forth fre children.

30and the hosebonde is stirid with the spirit of gelousye, and bryngith hir in to the `siyt of the Lord, and the preest doith to hir bi alle thingis that ben writun, the hosebonde schal be with out synne,

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Cross References

Leviticus 7:11This is the lawe of `the sacrifice of pesible thingis, which is offrid to the Lord.

Leviticus 13:59This is the lawe of lepre of cloth, wollun and lynnun, of warp and of oof, and of al purtenaunce of skiyn, hou it owith to be clensyd, ethir `to be defoulid.

Leviticus 15:32This is the lawe of hym that suffrith fletyng out of seed, and which is defoulid with fleischly couplyng,

Numbers 5:15the man schal brynge hir to the preest, and he schal offre an offryng for hir `the tenthe part of a mesure clepid satum of barli meele; he schal not schede oyle ther onne, nethir he schal putte encense, for it is the sacrifice of gelousie, and an offryng enquerynge auowtrye.

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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