Numbers 5:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while under your husband’s authority, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings the curse.

Cross References

Numbers 5:12

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

Numbers 5:18

The priest shall set the woman before the Lord, dishevel the woman’s hair, and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. In his own hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.

Numbers 5:28

But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be immune and be able to conceive children.

Matthew 26:63

But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I put you under oath before the living God, tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”

Romans 7:2

Thus a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.