Numbers 5:12 — Meaning and Application

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“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,”

Numbers 5:12

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And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and {there be} no witness against her, neither she be taken {with the manner};

And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

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Numbers 5:1

"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,"

Numbers 5:2

"Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:"

Numbers 5:3

"Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell."

Numbers 5:4

"And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel."

Numbers 5:5

"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,"

Numbers 5:6

"Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;"

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