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16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:

Numbers 5:16

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

  • I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

  • Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. …

  • Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Commentary

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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