Numbers 5:20

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—”

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BSBPD

“But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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--”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 5:20 — 1 related verse from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 5:12“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him

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