Numbers 5:11

The Adultery Test

11 Then the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 5:11 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 5:11

And the Lord spake unto Moses
At the same time, and delivered to him a new law:

saying;
as follows.

Numbers 5:11 In-Context

9 Every sacred contribution the Israelites bring to the priest shall belong to him.

10 Each man’s sacred gifts are his own, but whatever he gives to the priest will belong to the priest.”

11 Then the LORD said to Moses,

12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him

13 by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),