You resort to the sword, you commit abominations and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then possess the land?
Numbers 5:29 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) “This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This is the law of jealousy and suspicion when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband and is defiled, American Standard Version (1901) This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled; Common English Bible These are the instructions about jealousy, when a wife has an affair while married to her husband and defiles herself, Catholic Public Domain Version This is the law for jealousy. If a woman has turned aside from her husband, and if she has been polluted, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled, |
You resort to the sword, you commit abominations and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then possess the land?
This is the law pertaining to beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms upon the earth,
This is the law for a leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in warp or woof, or in anything of skin, to decide whether it is clean or unclean.
“And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which one may offer to the Lord.
“Say to the people of Israel, If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,
then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a cereal offering of jealousy, a cereal offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness, while you were under your husband's authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.
or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.