Numbers 5:20 meaning and explanation
But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—
Numbers 5:20, Berean Standard Bible
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The LORD is speaking through Moses to the Israelites, and here the priest is administering the test for a suspected wife, addressing her directly under oath before the LORD. This verse is the conditional clause of that oath, naming the specific situation the ritual addresses: a married woman who has gone astray while under her husband's authority and defiled herself with another man.
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