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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·

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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

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