or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Numbers 5:30 in context
Numbers 5:27–31
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When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people.
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If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.
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“‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,
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or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.
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The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”
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