Numbers 5:13
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:

Leviticus 18:20 Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.

Leviticus 20:10 If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Proverbs 7:18,19 For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey. . . .

Proverbs 30:20 Such also is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.

Context
The Adultery Test
12Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband, 13Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:14If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,…
Cross References
Leviticus 18:20
Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.

Leviticus 20:10
If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Lexicon
by sleeping with
וְשָׁכַ֨ב (wə·šā·ḵaḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7901: To lie down

another man,
אִ֣ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

and it is concealed
וְנֶעְלַם֙ (wə·ne‘·lam)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5956: To veil from sight, conceal

from
מֵעֵינֵ֣י (mê·‘ê·nê)
Preposition-m | Noun - cdc
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

her husband
אִישָׁ֔הּ (’î·šāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

and her
וְהִ֣יא (wə·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

impurity
נִטְמָ֑אָה (niṭ·mā·’āh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2930: To be or become unclean

is undetected
וְנִסְתְּרָ֖ה (wə·nis·tə·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5641: To hide, conceal

(since there is no
אֵ֣ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

witness against her
וְעֵד֙ (wə·‘êḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5707: A witness, testimony, a recorder, prince

and she
וְהִ֖וא (wə·hi·w)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

was not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

caught in the act),
נִתְפָּֽשָׂה׃ (niṯ·pā·śāh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8610: To manipulate, seize, chiefly to capture, wield, to overlay, to use unwarrantably


Additional Translations
by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;

and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she be not taken in the act;

and supposing any one shall lie with her carnally, and the thing shall be hid from the eyes of her husband, and she should conceal it and be herself defiled, and there be no witness with her, and she should not be taken;

and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and she be defiled in secret, and there be no witness against her, and she have not been caught;

and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken in the act;

And a man shall lie with her carnally, and it shall be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;

and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;

and a man hath lain with her with the seed of copulation, and it hath been hid from the eyes of her husband, and concealed, and she hath been defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she hath not been caught,
Jump to Previous
Act Although Carnally Caught Close Concealed Copulation Defiled Eyes Herself Hid Hidden Husband Intercourse Keeps Kept Lain Lies Manner Secret Secretly Seed Sleeping Witness
Jump to Next
Act Although Carnally Caught Close Concealed Copulation Defiled Eyes Herself Hid Hidden Husband Intercourse Keeps Kept Lain Lies Manner Secret Secretly Seed Sleeping Witness
Links
Numbers 5:13 NIV
Numbers 5:13 NLT
Numbers 5:13 ESV
Numbers 5:13 NASB
Numbers 5:13 KJV

Numbers 5:13 Bible Apps
Numbers 5:13 Biblia Paralela
Numbers 5:13 Chinese Bible
Numbers 5:13 French Bible
Numbers 5:13 German Bible

Alphabetical: since a act act against although and another been by caught defiled eyes from has her herself hidden husband impurity in intercourse is it man no not of she sleeping the there this undetected with witness

OT Law: Numbers 5:13 And a man lies with her carnally (Nu Num.) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools

Numbers 5:12
Top of Page
Top of Page