John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 5:30

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, etc.] (See Gill on “<040514>Numbers 5:14”); and shall set the woman before the Lord; has carried the matter so far as to bring his wife to the priest or civil magistrate, and declare his suspicion, and the ground of it: and the priest shall execute upon her all this law; he shall proceed according to the law, and perform every rite and ceremony required; nor could any stop be put to it, unless the woman owned she was defiled.

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