Numbers 5:29
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
American King James Version (AKJV)
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
American Standard Version (ASV)
This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;
Basic English Translation (BBE)
This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;
Webster's Revision
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth astray to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
World English Bible
"'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;
English Revised Version (ERV)
This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;
Clarke's Numbers 5:29 Bible Commentary
This is the law of jealousies - And this is the most singular law in the whole Pentateuch: a law that seems to have been copied by almost all the nations of the earth, whether civilized or barbarian, as we find that similar modes of trial for suspected offenses were used when complete evidence was wanting to convict; and where it was expected that the object of their worship would interfere for the sake of justice, in order that the guilty should be brought to punishment, and the innocent be cleared. For general information on this head see at the end of this chapter. (See Numbers 5:31 (note)).
