King James Version
Numbers 5:29 in the King James Version says “This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;”
Numbers 5:29 · KJV
And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
KJV Study — Public Domain
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
“to another instead of her husband”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“and is defiled”
H2930to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
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