King James Version
Numbers 5:16 in the King James Version says “And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:”
Numbers 5:16 · KJV
And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“shall bring her near”
H7126to approach (causatively, bring near) for whatever purpose
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“And the priest”
H3548literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
“and set”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
“her before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
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