Numbers - 5:20

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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:"

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 5:20.

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But 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:
But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:
But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:
But 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,
But 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:
and 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,
But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:
but if thou hast gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband-
But if you have turned away from your husband, and also have been defiled, and have lain together with another man,
Si vero declinaveris sub viro tuo, et polluta fueris, dederitque aliquis in te semen suum praeter virum tuum:

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband,.... Gone aside from the paths of modesty and chastity, and betook herself to another man's bed instead of her husband's:
and if thou be defiled, by committing adultery:
and some man hath lain with thee beside thy husband; these phrases are all synonymous, and a heap of words are made use of to express the sin, and that there might be no evasion of it, and that it might be clear what was intended, this being said on oath.

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