And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
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Gill's Exposition
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean,.... If she is not guilty of adultery, but pure from that sin:
then she shall be free; from the effects of the bitter water; they shall have no such…
The trial of jealousy. Since the crime of adultery is especially defiling and destructive of the very foundations of social order, the whole subject is dealt with at a length proportionate to its…
We have here the law concerning the solemn trial of a wife whose husband was jealous of her. Observe,
I. What was the case supposed: That a man had some reason to suspect his wife to have committed…
Cambridge Bible
she shall be free] she shall be acquitted; proved innocent.
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