12Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
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And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: …
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-31)We have here the law concerning the solemn trial of a wife whose husband was jealous of her. Observe, I. What was the case supposed: That a man had some reason to suspect his wife to have committed adultery, Luke 5:12-14. Here, 1. The sin of adultery is justly represented as an exceedingly sinful sin; it is going aside from God and virtue, and the good way, Prov. 2:17. It is committing a trespass…
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