Numbers 5:29
New Revised Standard Version
This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

New American Bible
This, then, is the ritual for jealousy when a woman goes astray while under the authority of her husband and defiles herself,

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled,

the law

Leviticus 7:11 This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that is offered to the Lord.

Leviticus 11:46 You shall be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of beasts and fowls, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and creepeth on the earth:

Leviticus 13:59 This is the law touching the leprosy of any woollen or linen garment, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skins: how it ought to be cleaned, or pronounced unclean.

Leviticus 14:54-57 This is the law of every kind of leprosy and stroke. . . .

Leviticus 15:32,33 This is the law of him that hath the issue of seed, and that is defiled by copulation. . . .

when a wife goeth

Numbers 5:12,15,19 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband, . . .

Isaiah 5:7,8 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry. . . .

Context
The Adultery Test
28But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children. 29This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled,30And the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her before the Lord, and the priest do to her according to all things that are here written:…
Cross References
Numbers 5:12
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,

Numbers 5:28
But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children.

Numbers 5:30
And the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her before the Lord, and the priest do to her according to all things that are here written:

Numbers 5:28
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