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Numbers 5:26 KJV
Numbers · chapter 5 · verse 26
And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.Numbers 5:26 · King James Version
Numbers 5:26 in context
24And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
25Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:
26And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
27And 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.
28And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- afterwardʼacharproperly, the hind partH310 →
- offeringminchâha donationH4503 →
- memorialʼazkârâha reminderH234 →
- handfulqâmatsto grasp with the handH7061 →
- priestkôhênliterally one officiating, a priestH3548 →
- altarmizbêachan altarH4196 →
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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