◄ Numbers 5:13 ►
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New Revised Standard Version
if a man has had intercourse with her but it is hidden from her husband, so that she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her since she was not caught in the act;

New American Bible
by virtue of a man having intercourse with her in secret from her husband and she is able to conceal the fact that she has defiled herself for lack of a witness who might have caught her in the act;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:

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Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:

Leviticus 18:20 Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.

Leviticus 20:10 If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Proverbs 7:18,19 For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey. . . .

Proverbs 30:20 Such also is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.

Context
The Adultery Test
…12Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband, 13Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:14If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,…
Cross References
Leviticus 18:20
Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.

Leviticus 20:10
If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Numbers 5:12
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