16The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord.


In Context

13 Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:

14 If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,

15 He shall bring her to the priest, and shall offer an oblation for her, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon, nor put frank- incense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery.

16 The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord.

17 And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.

18 And when the woman shall stand before the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and shall, put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance, and the oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall hold the most bitter waters, whereon he hath heaped curses with execration.

Numbers 5:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:16" 'The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord .

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Jehovah:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Jehovah.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16'And the priest hath brought her near, and hath caused her to stand before Jehovah,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: