28And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
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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:
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. …
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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