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16 ‘And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the aLord.  
17 The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.
18 Then the priest shall stand the woman before the Lord, uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse.
19 And the priest shall put her under oath, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness while under your husband’s authority, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.
20 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 lain with you”—
21 then the priest shall aput the woman under the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman—b“the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh1 rot and your belly swell;  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Numbers 5:18

Uncover the woman' s head - To take off a woman' s veil, and expose her to the sight of men, would be considered a very great degradation in the East. To this St. Paul appears to allude, I Corinthians 11:5, I Corinthians 11:6,I Corinthians 11:10.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Numbers 5:18:

Psalms 109:18
1 Corinthians 11:5

 

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