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27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come
to pass, that if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be
free, and shall conceive seed.
29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another
instead of her husband, and is defiled;
30 or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous
over his wife, and shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall
bear her iniquity.
Numbers-6
The Law for the Nazarite
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, when either
man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Lord;
After the law for the discovery and shame of those that by
sin had made themselves vile, fitly follows this for the direction and encouragement of those who by their eminent piety and devotion had made themselves honourable, and distinguished themselves from their neighbours. It is very probable that there were those before the making of this law who went under the character of Nazarites, and were celebrated by that title as persons professing greater strictness and zeal in religion than other people; for the vow of a Nazarite is spoken of here as a thing already well known, but the obligation of it is reduced to a greater certainty than hitherto it had been. Joseph is called a Nazarite among his brethren (Ge 49:26), not only because separate from them, but because eminent among them. Observe,