Numbers 5:30

30 or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous [of] his wife, he will present the woman {before Yahweh},and the priest will do to her all of this law.

Numbers 5:30 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 5:30

Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be
jealous over his wife (See Gill on Numbers 5:14);

and shall set the woman before the Lord;
has carried the matter so far as to bring his wife to the priest or civil magistrate, and declare his suspicion, and the ground of it:

and the priest shall execute upon her all this law;
he shall proceed according to the law, and perform every rite and ceremony required; nor could any stop be put to it, unless the woman owned she was defiled.

Numbers 5:30 In-Context

28 And if the woman is not defiled, and she [is] pure, she will go unpunished and be able to conceive children.

29 " 'This [is] the regulation of jealousy, when a woman has an affair under her husband and she is defiled,

30 or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous [of] his wife, he will present the woman {before Yahweh},and the priest will do to her all of this law.

31 The man will go unpunished from guilt, and the woman, she will bear her guilt.'"

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "before the face of"