Numbers 5:12
New Revised Standard Version
Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

New American Bible
Speak to the Israelites and tell them: If a man’s wife goes astray and becomes unfaithful to him

Douay-Rheims Bible
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,

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Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,

Numbers 5:19,20 And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband's bed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not hurt thee. . . .

Proverbs 2:16,17 And forsaketh the guide of her youth, . . .

Context
The Adultery Test
11And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 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:…
Cross References
Numbers 5:11
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Numbers 5:19
And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband's bed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not hurt thee.

Numbers 5:20
But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:

Numbers 5:29
This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled,

Deuteronomy 24:1
If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Numbers 5:11
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