Numbers 5:20
 Numbers 5:20 
New International Version (©2011)
But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband"--

New Living Translation (©2007)
But if you have gone astray by being unfaithful to your husband, and have defiled yourself by having sex with another man--'

English Standard Version (©2001)
But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
if you, however, have gone astray, being under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But if you have gone astray while under your husband's authority, if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has slept with you--

International Standard Version (©2012)
But if you have become unfaithful to your husband and have become defiled because a man who isn't your husband has had sexual relations with you.'

NET Bible (©2006)
But if you have gone astray while under your husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you. . .."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If, in fact, you have been unfaithful and have had sexual intercourse with another man,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you beside your husband:

American King James Version
But 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:

American Standard Version
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:

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:

Darby Bible Translation
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,

English Revised Version
but if thou hast gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thine husband:

Webster's Bible Translation
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:

World English Bible
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:"

Young's Literal Translation
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 --

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:11-31 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 guilty from escaping, and the innocent from coming under just suspicion. When no proof could be brought, the wife was called on to make this solemn appeal to a heart-searching God. No woman, if she were guilty, could say Amen to the adjuration, and drink the water after it, unless she disbelieved the truth of God, or defied his justice. The water is called the bitter water, because it caused the curse. Thus sin is called an evil and a bitter thing. Let all that meddle with forbidden pleasures, know that they will be bitterness in the latter end. From the whole learn, 1. Secret sins are known to God, and sometimes are strangely brought to light in this life; and that there is a day coming when God will, by Christ, judge the secrets of men according to the gospel, Ro 2:16. 2 In particular, Whoremongers and adulterers God will surely judge. Though we have not now the waters of jealousy, yet we have God's word, which ought to be as great a terror. Sensual lusts will end in bitterness. 3. God will manifest the innocency of the innocent. The same providence is for good to some, and for hurt to others. And it will answer the purposes which God intends.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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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The Adultery Test
19And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say to the woman, If no man have lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of your husband, be you free from this bitter water that causes the curse: 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: 21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD does make your thigh to rot, and your belly to swell; …

Leviticus 15:16 "'When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
Numbers 5:12 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'If a man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him