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This isזֹאתthe instructionתּוֹרַתfor jealousy,הַקְּנָאֹתwhenאֲשֶׁרa wife,אִשָּׁהwhile under the authority ofתַּחַתher husband,אִישָׁהּgoes astrayתִּשְׂטֶהand makes herself unclean,וְנִטְמָאָה
Numbers 5:29
Study it in the app“This is the instruction for jealousy, when a wife, while under the authority of her husband, goes astray and makes herself unclean,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 5:29, word by word
- the instructionתּוֹרַתtorat
teaching of YHWH
What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.
Where else “torat” appears- for jealousyקְּנָאֹתkenaot
jealousy
A husband's burning that tolerates no rivals; so is YHWH with his people.
Where else “kenaot” appears- a wifeאִשָּׁהisha
woman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “isha” appears- her husbandאִישָׁisha
husband
Literally "her man": the one married to her.
Where else “isha” appears- goes astrayתִּשְׂטֶהtiste
go astray
Turn aside, go astray from the right way.
Where else “tiste” appears- and makes herself uncleanנִטְמָאָהnitmaa
be unclean
To become unclean, for example by touching the dead.
Where else “nitmaa” appears
The context
28But if the woman has not made herself unclean, and she is clean, she shall be free and shall conceive offspring.
29 · This verse (above)
30or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before YHWH, and the priest shall carry out for her all this instruction.