The Adultery Test
Numbers 5:20
In 11 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’—
- KJV
- 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:
- 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:
- LSV
- and you, if you have turned aside under your husband, and if you have been defiled, and a man commits his intercourse with you besides your 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 —
- DBY
- 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,
- DRC
- But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:
- GNV
- But if thou hast turned from thine husband, and so art defiled, and some man hath lyen with thee beside thine husband,
- JPS
- but if thou hast gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband —
- LXXE
- But if being a married woman thou hast transgressed, or been polluted, and any one has lain with thee, beside thy husband:
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְאַ֗תְּ כִּ֥י שָׂטִ֛ית תַּ֥חַת אִישֵׁ֖ךְ וְכִ֣י נִטְמֵ֑את וַיִּתֵּ֨ן אִ֥ישׁ בָּךְ֙ אֶת־שְׁכָבְתּ֔וֹ מִֽבַּלְעֲדֵ֖י אִישֵֽׁךְ׃
- LXX-Br
- Εἰ δὲ σὺ παραβέβηκας ὕπανδρος οὖσα, ἢ μεμίανσαι, καὶ ἔδωκέ τις τὴν κοίτην αὐτοῦ ἐν σοὶ, πλὴν τοῦ ἀνδρός σου·
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
AdulteryWater of jealousyJealousyBitter WaterSwellRehoboth by the RiverSelf-IncriminationRighteousnessHusbandTablet
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Numbers 5:12“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).