Numbers 5:14
and 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–
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- Prov 6:34 : 34 for jealousy kindles a husband’s rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge.
- Song 8:6 : 6 The Nature of True LoveThe Beloved to Her Lover: Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart, like a signet on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.
- Zeph 3:8 : 8 Therefore you must wait patiently for me,” says the LORD,“for the day when I attack and take plunder. I have decided to gather nations together and assemble kingdoms, so I can pour out my fury on them– all my raging anger. For the whole earth will be consumed by my fiery anger.
- 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?
- Num 5:30 : 30 or 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.
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- Num 5:24-318 verses89%
24 He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness.
25 The priest will take the grain offering of suspicion from the woman’s hand, wave the grain offering before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.
26 Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.
27 When 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.
28 But 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,
30 or 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.
31 Then the man will be free from iniquity, but that woman will bear the consequences of her iniquity.’”
- Num 5:15-217 verses85%
15 then 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.
16 “‘Then the priest will bring her near and have her stand before the LORD.
17 The priest will then take holy water in a pottery jar, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water.
18 Then the priest will have the woman stand before the LORD, uncover the woman’s head, and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse.
19 Then 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.
20 But 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….”
21 Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse and will say to her,“The LORD make you an attested curse among your people, if the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell;
- Num 5:11-133 verses82%
11 The 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,
13 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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34 for jealousy kindles a husband’s rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge.
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13 Purity in the Marriage Relationship Suppose a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then rejects her,
14 accusing 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!”
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15 for the LORD your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.
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29 So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
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21 If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.
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15 He 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,
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14 “‘If a man eats a holy offering by mistake, he must add one fifth to it and give the holy offering to the priest.
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10 then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men commit adultery with her.
11 For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.
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3 or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;
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16 “‘When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening,
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1 If 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.
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11 (though the father did not do any of them). He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,
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5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?
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20 You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
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14 For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
- Lev 15:23-242 verses69%
23 If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening,
24 and 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.
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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,
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19 When his master heard his wife say,“This is the way your slave treated me,” he became furious.
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5 when an individual becomes guilty with regard to one of these things he must confess how he has sinned,
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15 Laws Concerning Children Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
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20 But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,
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10 If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
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16 Moral 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.
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3 If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,
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2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you– in one of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you– who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant
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15 But if he should nullify them after he has heard them, then he will bear her iniquity.”
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6 does 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,
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2 “When a person sins and commits a trespass against the LORD by deceiving his fellow citizen in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen,
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54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.