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Numbers 5:28

And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean, then she shall be free, not be visited by the punishment of God, and free to hold up her head among the members of her people, and shall conceive seed, have the ability to bear children. This shows that the trial of jealousy was by no means so one-sided as some writers would have it, for the innocent wife, outraged to the quick by the suspicions voiced by her husband, could insist upon this public justification of herself, to the deep humiliation of the man unjustly accusing her.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BE. Hebrew she be....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _she shall be free] she shall be_ ACQUITTED; proved innocent....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    VARIOUS CEREMONIAL LAWS 1-4. On the seclusion of lepers and unclean persons, see Leviticus 13-15. 5-10. On the law of restitution, see Leviticus 5:14 to Leviticus 6:7, to which the present passage is...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אִם ־לֹ֤א נִטְמְאָה֙ הָֽ אִשָּׁ֔ה וּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    DEFILEMENT AND PURGATION Numbers 5:1 THE separation of Israel as a people belonging to Jehovah proceeded on ideas of holiness which excluded from privilege many of the Hebrews themselves. The law did...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    3. THE WATER OF JEALOUSY Numbers 5:11. The long and remarkable statute regarding the water of jealousy seems to have been interposed to prevent, by means of an ordeal, that cruel practice of perempto...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This section is devoted to arrangements emphasizing the necessity for the purity of the camp on the eve of the coming of the people into the land. All that were unclean were put outside the camp This...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Children, that her husband may love her the more, and she may receive some compensation, for the stain thrown upon her character. (Menochius) --- We do not read in Scripture that any was ever subject...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Conceive seed_ That is, shall bring forth children: as the Jews say, in case of her innocence, she infallibly did, yea, though she had been barren before....

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The vncleane are remoued out of the campe. 5 Restitution is to be made in trespasses. 11 The triall of Iealousie. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Commaund the children of Israel, that...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    DEFILEMENT CALLING FOR ISOLATION (vs.1-4) The principle of 1 Corinthians 5:6, "a little leaven leavens the whole lump" was just as true in the Old Testament as in the new. However, the defilement ofN...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-31 This law would make the women of Israel watch against giving cause for suspicion. On the other hand, it would hinder the cruel treatment such suspicions might occasion. It would also hinder the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SHE SHALL BE FREE, to wit, from these bitter curses and miseries. SHALL CONCEIVE SEED, i.e. shall bring forth children, as the Jews say, in case of her innocency, infallibly she did, yea, though she w...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    ''And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: both male an...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 5:28 woman H802 defiled H2930 (H8738) clean H2889 free H5352 (H8738) conceive H2232 (H8738) children...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    IF THE WOMAN IS INNOCENT SHE WILL BE REVEALED AS CLEAN AND WILL BE FREE OF ANY BLAME FOR HIDDEN ADULTERY BEFORE GOD AND MEN (NUMBERS 5:28). Numbers 5:28 ‘And if the woman be not defiled, but be cle...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Defilement of the camp. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The purity of the church must be as carefully guarded as the order of it and it is for the edification of it that those who are...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Numbers 5:2. _Defiled by the dead._ They were unclean seven days. The whole of Shem's race in India, keep this custom to the present day. Numbers 5:6. _Any sin that men commit;_ through ignorance, or...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _If any man’s wife go aside._ THE TRIAL OF THE SUSPECTED WIFE I. Confidence in conjugal relations is of great importance. “Suspicion,” says Bp. Babington, “is the cut-throat and poison of all love a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 5:11 The ritual described here is designed to distinguish between actual adultery (vv. Numbers 5:12) and unwarranted suspicion (v....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE EXCLUSION OF THE UNCLEAN (_Numbers 5:1_) “Now that the nation was regularly organised, the sacred tribe dedicated, and the sanctuary with the tokens of God’s more immediate Presence provided with...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter five they are told to cleanse the camp by putting out every leper and those that have any kind of an issue from their body, who is and those that have been defied, defiled by touching a...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 1:7; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Micah 7:7; Numbers 5:19; Psalms 113:9

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Conceive seed — That is, shall bring forth children, as the Jews say, in case of her innocency, she infallibly did, yea though she was barren before....

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