“You depend on your sword, and you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbour’s wife. Should you then possess the land?” ’
Numbers 5:29 - The Scriptures 2009 This is the Torah of jealousy, when a wife turns aside under her husband’s authority 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 depend on your sword, and you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbour’s wife. Should you then possess the land?” ’
‘This is the Torah of the beasts and the birds and every living being – the creeping creature in the waters, and of every being that swarms on the earth,
This is the Torah of the infection of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or in the warp or in the weft, or in any leather object, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.” ”
‘And this is the Torah of the slaughtering of peace offerings which is brought to יהוה.”
“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When any man’s wife turns aside and has committed a trespass against him,
then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. And he shall bring the offering for her, one-tenth of an ĕphah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of jealousy, an offering for remembering, for bringing crookedness to remembrance.
“And the priest shall make her swear, and say to the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness under your husband’s authority, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.
But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be clear and shall conceive children.
or when a spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife. Then he shall make the woman stand before יהוה, and the priest shall do to her all this Torah.