20But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have defiled yourself by sleeping with a man other than your husband"-


In Context

17 Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.

18 After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord , he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.

19 Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, "If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.

20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have defiled yourself by sleeping with a man other than your husband"-

21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse of the oath-"may the Lord cause your people to curse and denounce you when he causes your thigh to waste away and your abdomen to swell.

22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells and your thigh wastes away. " " 'Then the woman is to say, "Amen. So be it."

Numbers 5:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:20But if thou hast gone aside [to another] instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:20But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:20But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:20But if thou hast gone astray to another instead of thy husband, and hast been defiled, and a man other than thy husband have lain with thee,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:20but if thou hast gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thine husband:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:20But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou art defiled, and some man hath lain with thee besides thy husband:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:20But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:20and thou, if thou hast turned aside under thy husband, and if thou hast been defiled, and any man doth give his copulation to thee besides thy husband —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:20But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you be defiled, and some man have lain with you beside your husband: