Numbers 5:20
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….”
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- Num 5:12 : 12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,
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- Num 5:16-194 verses87%
16“‘Then the priest will bring her near and have her stand before the LORD.
17The 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.
18Then 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.
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.
- Num 5:11-144 verses84%
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,
13and 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–
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–
- Num 5:26-316 verses83%
26Then 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.
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 5:21-222 verses79%
21Then 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;
22and this water that causes the curse will go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot.” Then the woman must say,“Amen, amen.”
- Lev 18:19-202 verses78%
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.
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20But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,
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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 22:22-232 verses75%
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,
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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,
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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.
- Deut 22:13-142 verses75%
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 20:20-212 verses75%
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.
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32“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
- Jer 3:1-22 verses74%
1“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?” says the LORD.
2“Look up at the hilltops and consider this. Where have you not been ravished? You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.
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24He 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.
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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.
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10then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men commit adultery with her.
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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.
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10If she made the vow in her husband’s house or put herself under obligation with an oath,
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2Suppose 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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29So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
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10If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
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20But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel, like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband,” says the LORD.
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4her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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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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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.
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2When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.
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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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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.
- Ezek 22:10-112 verses72%
10They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.
11One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister– his father’s daughter– within you.
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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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27Adultery“You have heard that it was said,‘Do not commit adultery.’