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Numbers 5:12 KJV
Numbers · chapter 5 · verse 12
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,Numbers 5:12 · King James Version
Numbers 5:12 in context
10And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
11And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
13And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
14And 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:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- commitmâʻalproperly, to cover upH4603 →
- Speakdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- man'sʼîysha man as an individual or a male personH376 →
- asidesâṭâhto deviate from dutyH7847 →
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We have here the law concerning the solemn trial of a wife whose husband was jealous of her. Observe, I. What was the case supposed: That a man had some reason to suspect his wife to have committed adultery, Num 5:12-14. Here, 1. The sin of adultery is justly represented as an exceedingly sinful sin;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-31