The Adultery Test
Numbers 5:29
In 11 translations
- BSB
- This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,
- KJV
- This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
- WEB
- “‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,
- ASV
- This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;
- LSV
- This [is] the law of jealousies when a wife turns aside under her husband and has been defiled,
- YLT
- 'This [is] the law of jealousies, when a wife turneth aside under her husband, and hath been defiled,
- DBY
- This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth astray to another instead of her husband and is defiled,
- DRC
- This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled,
- GNV
- This is the law of ielousie, when a wife turneth from her husband and is defiled,
- JPS
- This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;
- LXXE
- This is the law of jealousy, wherein a married woman should happen to transgress, and be defiled;
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- זֹ֥את תּוֹרַ֖ת הַקְּנָאֹ֑ת אֲשֶׁ֨ר תִּשְׂטֶ֥ה אִשָּׁ֛ה תַּ֥חַת אִישָׁ֖הּ וְנִטְמָֽאָה׃
- LXX-Br
- Οὗτος ὁ νόμος τῆς ζηλοτυπίας, ᾧ ἂν παραβῇ ἡ γυνὴ ὕπανδρος οὖσα, καὶ μιανθῇ.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
AdulteryWater of jealousyJealousySwellRehoboth by the RiverRighteousnessHusbandWifeNumbers, Book ofWomen
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Cross-references most cited first
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