Numbers 5:20

“But if you, have gone astray while under the authority of your husband, and if you have made yourself unclean, and a man other than your husband has lain with you—’”

Numbers 5:20 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Numbers 5:20, word by word

have gone astrayשָׂטִיתsatit

go astray

Turn aside, go astray from the right way.

Where else “satit” appears
your husbandאִישֵׁishe

husband

Literally "her man": the one married to her.

Where else “ishe” appears
you have made yourself uncleanנִטְמֵאתnitmet

be unclean

To become unclean, for example by touching the dead.

Where else “nitmet” appears
other thanבַּלְעֲדֵיbalade

except

Except, besides, apart from.

Where else “balade” appears
has lain with you—’יִּתֵּןyiten

give

To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.

Where else “yiten” appears
has lain with you—’שְׁכָבְתּshechavt

lying (with)

Lying with someone; sexual relations.

Where else “shechavt” appears

The context

19And the priest shall make her swear and say to the woman, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray into uncleanness while under the authority of your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

20 · This verse (above)

21then the priest shall make the woman swear the oath of imprecation, and the priest shall say to the woman, ‘May YHWH make you an imprecation and an oath among your people, when YHWH makes your thigh sag and your belly swell;

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