Numbers 5:29

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

Cross References

Ezekiel 33:26

You depend on your swords, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?

Leviticus 11:46

“This is the law pertaining to land animal and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms upon the earth,

Leviticus 13:59

“This is the rule for a defiling disease in a cloth of wool or linen, either in warp or woof, or in anything of skin, to decide whether it is clean or unclean.”

Leviticus 7:11

“This is the rule of the sacrifice of well-being that one may offer to the Lord.

Numbers 5:12

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

Numbers 5:15

then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. And he shall bring the offering required for her, one-tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

Numbers 5:19

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.

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.

Numbers 5:30

or when a 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 apply this entire law to her.