Numbers 5:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:20 : 20 You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
  • Lev 20:10 : 10 If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
  • Prov 7:18-19 : 18 Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let’s delight ourselves with love’s pleasures. 19 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.
  • Prov 30:20 : 20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and wiped her mouth and has said,“I have not done wrong.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 5:11-12
    2 verses
    86%

    11The Jealousy Ordeal The LORD spoke to Moses:

    12“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

  • Num 5:27-31
    5 verses
    83%

    27When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness– her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

    28But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and will be able to bear children.

    29“‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

    30or when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife; then he must have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest will carry out all this law upon her.

    31Then the man will be free from iniquity, but that woman will bear the consequences of her iniquity.’”

  • Num 5:19-20
    2 verses
    83%

    19Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say to her,“If no other man has gone to bed with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.

    20But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”

  • Num 5:14-15
    2 verses
    82%

    14and if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is defiled; or if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is not defiled–

    15then the man must bring his wife to the priest, and he must bring the offering required for her, one tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he must not pour olive oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of suspicion, a grain offering for remembering, for bringing iniquity to remembrance.

  • Deut 22:20-25
    6 verses
    80%

    20But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,

    21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

    22If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

    23If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her,

    24you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.

    25But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13Purity in the Marriage Relationship Suppose a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then rejects her,

    14accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”

  • Lev 18:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

    18You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.

    19“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.

    20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

  • Lev 19:20
    77%

    20Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Lev 20:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20If a man goes to bed with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness; they must bear responsibility for their sin, they will die childless.

    21If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.

  • Exod 22:16
    76%

    16Moral and Ceremonial Laws“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and goes to bed with her, he must surely pay the marriage price for her to be his wife.

  • Prov 6:29
    76%

    29So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.

  • Lev 20:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    17“‘If a man has marital relations with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has exposed his sister’s nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.

    18If a man goes to bed with a menstruating woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her fountain of blood and she has exposed the fountain of her blood, so both of them must be cut off from the midst of their people.

  • Deut 22:28
    76%

    28Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered.

  • Num 5:6
    75%

    6“Tell the Israelites,‘When a man or a woman commits any sin that people commit, thereby breaking faith with the LORD, and that person is found guilty,

  • Lev 15:24
    74%

    24and if a man actually goes to bed with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean.

  • Lev 15:18
    74%

    18As for a woman whom a man goes to bed with, then has a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 18:16
    74%

    16You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.

  • Deut 28:30
    74%

    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • Matt 5:27
    74%

    27Adultery“You have heard that it was said,‘Do not commit adultery.’

  • Lev 20:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

    11If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

  • Ezek 18:15
    74%

    15He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

  • Job 31:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men commit adultery with her.

    11For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.

  • Ezek 18:11
    74%

    11(though the father did not do any of them). He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,

  • Deut 24:1
    73%

    1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

  • Num 30:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6Vows Made by Married Women“And if she marries a husband while under a vow, or she uttered anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself,

    7and her husband hears about it, but remains silent about her when he hears about it, then her vows will stand and her obligations which she has pledged for herself will stand.

  • Deut 22:30
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    30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

  • Deut 25:11
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    11If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his private parts,

  • Deut 5:18
    73%

    18You must not commit adultery.

  • Num 30:11
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    11and her husband heard about it, but remained silent about her, and did not overrule her, then all her vows will stand, and every obligation which she pledged for herself will stand.

  • Ezek 18:6
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    6does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not approach a woman for marital relations during her period,