Numbers 5:20
But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Numbers 5:20 in other translations
| BSB | But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’— |
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| WEB | But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—” |
| ASV | But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband: |
| YLT | and thou, if thou hast turned aside under thy husband, and if thou hast been defiled, and any man doth give his copulation to thee besides thy husband-- |
| DARBY | But if thou hast gone astray to another instead of thy husband, and hast been defiled, and a man other than thy husband have lain with thee, |
| BBE | But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover: |
| Webster | But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou art defiled, and some man hath lain with thee besides thy husband: |
What does Numbers 5:20 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 5:11-31
This law would make the women of Israel watch against giving cause for suspicion. On the other hand, it would hinder the cruel treatment such suspicions might occasion. It would also hinder the guilty from escaping, and the innocent from coming under just suspicion. When no proof could be brought, the wife was called on to make this solemn appeal to a heart-searching God. No woman, if she were guilty, could say…
Numbers 5:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 5:20
- Numbers 5:12
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
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Context
- 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:
- Numbers 5:20
But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
- Numbers 5:21
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
Numbers 5:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas si te has descarriado de tu marido, y te has amancillado, y alguno hubiere tenido coito contigo, fuera de tu marido: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais si tu t’es détournée en étant avec un autre que ton mari, et que tu te sois rendue impure, et qu’un autre que ton mari ait couché avec toi:… |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | wenn du aber, unter deinem Manne seiend, ausgeschweift bist und dich verunreinigt hast, und ein Mann bei dir gelegen hat außer deinem Manne, - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sin autem declinasti a viro tuo, atque polluta es, et concubuisti cum altero viro: |