Numbers 5:12 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them: A man's wife may have been unfaithful to him(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: If any man's wife go aside, and act unfaithfully against him,

WBS:

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

WEB:

"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them:'If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,

YLT:

'Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When any man's wife turneth aside, and hath committed against him a trespass,

Numbers 5:12 Cross References

XREF:

Numbers 5:19 The priest shall have her take an oath and shall say to the woman, "If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray into uncleanness, being under the authority of your husband, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings a curse;

Numbers 5:29 This is the law of jealousy: when a wife, being under the authority of her husband, goes astray and defiles herself, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

5:12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife {e} go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
(e) By breaking the band of marriage, and playing the harlot.

WES:

5:12 If a man's wife - This law was given partly to deter wives from adulterous practices, and partly to secure wives against the rage of their hard - hearted husbands, who otherwise might upon mere suspicions destroy them, or at least put them away. There was not like fear of inconveniences to the husband from the jealousy, of the wife, who had not that authority and power, and opportunity for the putting away or killing the husband, as the husband had over the wife. Go aside - From the way of religion and justice, and that either in truth, or in her husband's opinion.

MHC:

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 Amen to the adjuration, and drink the water after it, unless she disbelieved the truth of God, or defied his justice. The water is called the bitter water, because it caused the curse. Thus sin is called an evil and a bitter thing. Let all that meddle with forbidden pleasures, know that they will be bitterness in the latter end. From the whole learn, 1. Secret sins are known to God, and sometimes are strangely brought to light in this life; and that there is a day coming when God will, by Christ, judge the secrets of men according to the gospel, Ro 2:16. 2 In particular, Whoremongers and adulterers God will surely judge. Though we have not now the waters of jealousy, yet we have God's word, which ought to be as great a terror. Sensual lusts will end in bitterness. 3. God will manifest the innocency of the innocent. The same providence is for good to some, and for hurt to others. And it will answer the purposes which God intends.

CONC:

Act Acts Aside Astray Commit Committed Goes Hast Israelites Man's Sinning Sons Speak Trespass Turneth Unfaithful Unfaithfully Unfaithfulness Wife Wrong

Act Acts Astray Children Commit Committed Goes Israel Israelites Sinning Speak Trespass Turneth Unfaithful Unfaithfully Wife Wrong

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