Numbers 5:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Or for a husband who, in a bitter spirit, has doubts in his heart about his wife; let him take her to the priest, who will put in force this law.

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  • Num 5:23-29
    7 verses
    91%

    23 And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out the writing with the bitter water;

    24 And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her.

    25 And the priest will take from her hand the meal offering of doubt, waving it before the Lord, and will take it to the altar;

    26 And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on the altar as a sign, and then he will give the woman the bitter water.

    27 And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

    28 But if she is clean she will be free and will have offspring.

    29 This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;

  • Num 5:11-21
    11 verses
    89%

    11 And the Lord said to Moses,

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

    13 By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

    14 If the spirit of doubt comes into her husband's heart, and he has doubts of his wife, with good cause; or if he has doubts of her without cause:

    15 Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume; for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering keeping wrongdoing in mind.

    16 And the priest will make her come near and put her before the Lord;

    17 And the priest will take holy water in a pot and put in it dust from the floor of the House;

    18 And he will make the woman come before the Lord with her hair loose, and will put the meal offering, the offering of a bitter spirit, in her hands; and the priest will take in his hand the bitter water causing the curse;

    19 And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If no man has been your lover and you have not been with another in place of your husband, you are free from this bitter water causing the curse;

    20 But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:

    21 Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach;

  • 31 Then the man will be free from all wrong, and the woman's sin will be on her.

  • 34 For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.

  • Num 5:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 And the Lord said to Moses,

    6 Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;

  • 15 For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.

  • 10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

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    13 If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,

    14 And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

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    21 Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

    22 If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

  • Job 31:10-11
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    10 Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

    11 For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    1 If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

    2 And when she has gone away from him, she may become another man's wife.

    3 And if the second husband has no love for her and, giving her a statement in writing, sends her away; or if death comes to the second husband to whom she was married;

  • 38 And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.

  • Num 30:15-16
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    15 But if the days go on, and her husband says nothing whatever to her, then he is giving the support of his authority to her oaths and undertakings, because at the time of hearing them he said nothing to her.

    16 But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.

  • 14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

  • 2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

  • Num 30:6-7
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    68%

    6 But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.

    7 And if she is married to a husband at the time when she is under an oath or an undertaking given without thought;

  • 5 Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.

  • 20 The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.

  • 20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

  • 11 If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife;

  • 31 Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose:

  • 5 And whoever is responsible for any such sin, let him make a statement openly of his wrongdoing;

  • 30 To be offered by the priest, one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering; and the priest will take away her sin before the Lord on account of her unclean condition.

  • 12 And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her and did not put a stop to it, then all her oaths and every undertaking she gave will have force.

  • 24 Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.

  • 29 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.