This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;
WEB
This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,
YLT
`This is the law of jealousies, when a wife turneth aside under her husband, and hath been defiled,
DBT
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth astray to another instead of her husband and is defiled,
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC