Numbers 5:28
New International Version
If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.

New Living Translation
But if she has not defiled herself and is pure, then she will be unharmed and will still be able to have children.

English Standard Version
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.

Berean Standard Bible
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.

King James Bible
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

New King James Version
But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be free and may conceive children.

New American Standard Bible
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be immune and conceive children.

NASB 1995
‘But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will then be free and conceive children.

NASB 1977
‘But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will then be free and conceive children.

Legacy Standard Bible
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will then be free and conceive a seed.

Amplified Bible
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she will be free and conceive children.

Christian Standard Bible
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she will be unaffected and will be able to conceive children.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she will be unaffected and will be able to conceive children.”

American Standard Version
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But if that woman is not defiled and she is pure, she shall be spared and she shall bear a male.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But if the woman have not been polluted, and be clean, then shall she be guiltless and shall conceive seed.

Contemporary English Version
But if she is innocent, her body will not be harmed, and she will still be able to have children.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children.

English Revised Version
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But if the woman is not unclean and is pure, she is not guilty and will be able to have children.

Good News Translation
But if she is innocent, she will not be harmed and will be able to bear children.

International Standard Version
But if the woman isn't defiled, then she is to be freed and will be able to bear children.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be cleared, and shall conceive seed.

Literal Standard Version
And if the woman has not been defiled, and is clean, then she has been acquitted, and has been sown [with] seed.

Majority Standard Bible
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.

New American Bible
If, however, the woman has not defiled herself, but is still pure, she will be immune and will still be fertile.

NET Bible
But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and will be able to bear children.

New Revised Standard Version
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be immune and be able to conceive children.

New Heart English Bible
If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free and will conceive children.

Webster's Bible Translation
And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

World English Bible
If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.

Young's Literal Translation
And if the woman hath not been defiled, and is clean, then she hath been acquitted, and hath been sown with seed.

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Context
The Adultery Test
27When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people. 28But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children. 29This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,…

Cross References
Numbers 5:27
When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.

Numbers 5:29
This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband's authority,

Deuteronomy 24:1
If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.


Treasury of Scripture

And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

and if

Numbers 5:19
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:

Micah 7:7-10
Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me…

2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

and shall

Psalm 113:9
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

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Verse 28. - And shall conceive seed. As a sign of the Divine favour; to a Jewish woman the surest and most regarded (1 Samuel 2:5; Psalm 127:3; Luke 1:58).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But if
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

the woman
הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה (hā·’iš·šāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

has not
לֹ֤א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

defiled herself
נִטְמְאָה֙ (niṭ·mə·’āh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2930: To be or become unclean

and is clean,
וּטְהֹרָ֖ה (ū·ṭə·hō·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 2889: Clean, pure

she
הִ֑וא (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

will be unaffected
וְנִקְּתָ֖ה (wə·niq·qə·ṯāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5352: To be, clean, to be bare, extirpated

and able to conceive
וְנִזְרְעָ֥ה (wə·niz·rə·‘āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify

children.
זָֽרַע׃ (zā·ra‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity


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