Numbers 5:11

The Test for an Unfaithful Wife

11 Then the LORD said to Moses,

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Numbers 5:11 in Other Translations

11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

11 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

11 And the LORD said to Moses,

11 God spoke to Moses:

11 The Lord spoke 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Numbers 5:11 In-Context

9 All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.

10 Sacred things belong to their owners, but what they give to the priest will belong to the priest.’ ”

11 Then the LORD said to Moses,

12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him

13 so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),

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