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:|


In Context

17 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.

18 The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

19 The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, |If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

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

21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, |Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

22 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.| The woman shall say, |Amen, Amen.|

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:20But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have defiled yourself by sleeping with a man other than your husband"-

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 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: