Numbers 5:20

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But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and defiled yourself, and if a man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you—

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  • Num 5:12 : 12 Speak to the Israelites: If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

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  • Num 5:16-19
    4 verses
    87%

    16The priest is to bring her forward and have her stand before the Lord.

    17Then the priest will take holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.

    18After the woman is made to stand before the Lord, the priest will loosen her hair, place the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering for jealousy, into her hands, and hold in his hands the bitter water that brings a curse.

    19The priest shall put her under oath and say to her, 'If no man has lain with you and you have not gone astray, defiling yourself while under your husband’s authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.'

  • Num 5:11-14
    4 verses
    84%

    11The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    12Speak to the Israelites: If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

    13and another man has sexual relations with her secretly, and it is hidden from her husband, and she is not caught but has become defiled, even though there is no witness against her,

    14and if a spirit of jealousy comes over the husband and he becomes suspicious of his wife, whether she has defiled herself or not,

  • Num 5:26-31
    6 verses
    83%

    26The priest shall take a handful of the offering as its memorial portion and burn it on the altar, and afterward, he shall make the woman drink the water.

    27When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her, causing her abdomen to swell and her thigh to shrink. The woman will then become a curse among her people.

    28But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to conceive children.

    29This is the law regarding jealousy when a woman goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband's authority.

    30Or when a man is overcome by a spirit of jealousy and suspects his wife, he is to bring her before the Lord, and the priest shall carry out all of this law on her.

    31The man will be free of guilt, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.

  • Num 5:21-22
    2 verses
    79%

    21then the priest will put the woman under the curse oath and say to her, 'May the Lord make you a curse and an example of cursing among your people by making your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell.'

    22May this water that brings a curse enter your body, causing your abdomen to swell and your thigh to waste away.' And the woman shall say, 'Amen, Amen.'

  • Lev 18:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

    19Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

    20Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

  • Deut 22:20
    76%

    20But if the accusation is true and there is no proof of the young woman's virginity,

  • Lev 20:18
    75%

    18If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual impurity and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her source of blood, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

  • Deut 22:22-23
    2 verses
    75%

    22If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman who were together must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

    23If there is a young woman who is a virgin betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,

  • Num 30:6
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    6But if her father rules against her when he hears about it, none of her vows or pledges by which she has obligated herself will stand. The LORD will forgive her because her father has objected to it.

  • Lev 19:20
    75%

    20If a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave designated for another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be an inquiry, but they are not to be put to death because she had not been freed.

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13If a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and then turns against her,

    14accusing her of misconduct and giving her a bad name by saying, 'I married this woman, but when I came to her, I did not find proof of her virginity,'

  • Lev 20:20-21
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    20If a man lies with his aunt, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

    21If a man marries his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • Ezek 16:32
    75%

    32You adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • Jer 3:1-2
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    74%

    1If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, should he take her back again? Wouldn't such a land become completely defiled? You have lived as a prostitute with many lovers—yet you want to return to me? declares the LORD.

    2Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been violated? By the roads you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

  • Num 5:24
    74%

    24He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her, causing bitter suffering.

  • Deut 28:30
    74%

    30You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit.

  • Job 31:10
    73%

    10then may my wife grind grain for another, and may others kneel over her.

  • Exod 22:16
    73%

    16If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man must still pay the bride price for virgins.

  • Num 30:10
    73%

    10A widow or a divorced woman is bound by all her vows and the obligations she places on herself.

  • Deut 17:2
    73%

    2If a man or woman in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you is found to have committed an evil act in the sight of the LORD your God, violating His covenant,

  • Prov 6:29
    73%

    29So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

  • Lev 20:10
    73%

    10If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

  • Jer 3:20
    73%

    20But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,' declares the LORD.

  • Deut 24:4
    73%

    4then her first husband, who sent her away, is not allowed to take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled. That would be detestable to the LORD. You must not bring guilt upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

  • Lev 15:16
    72%

    16If a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his entire body with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

  • Lev 15:24
    72%

    24If a man has sexual relations with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days. Any bed he lies on will also be unclean.

  • Deut 24:2
    72%

    2When she leaves his house, she may go and become another man's wife.

  • Ezek 18:11
    72%

    11even though the father did none of them: He eats at the mountain shrines, defiles his neighbor’s wife,

  • Lev 15:18
    72%

    18If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

  • Ezek 22:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.

    11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

  • Num 5:6
    72%

    6Speak to the Israelites: If a man or woman commits any sin against another person and is unfaithful to the Lord, that person is guilty.

  • Matt 5:27
    72%

    27You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’