Numbers 5:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

If The Woman Is innocent She Will Be Revealed As Clean and Will Be Free of Any Blame for Hidden Adultery Before God and Men (Numbers 5:28).

Numbers 5:28

‘And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean, then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.'

But if she was innocent, if the woman was not defiled and was clean, then she would be free of the charge and free of the consequences of guilt and she would be able to have children again. Her reproductive abilities would not have been harmed. She would be without a stain on her character, and her husband would be expected to accept her back fully and bear children by her. She would be seen as having proved that there had been no hidden adultery.

Numbers 5:28

28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.