Numbers 5:20
What does Numbers 5:20 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 5:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:
KJV
King James Version · 1611But 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:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and 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--
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890But 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,
Context
v.19And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse.
v.20This passage
v.21then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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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