Proverbs 30:20 Cross References - CLV

²⁰ So also is the way of an adulterous woman; She eats and wipes off her mouth, And she says, I have not contrived lawlessness."

¹¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. ¹² Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them:In case any man's wife swerves, and she offends against him, the offense bein. ¹³ that a man who lies with her has an emission of semen, and it is obscured from her husband's eyes, and she conceals that she defiled herself since there was no witness against her, and she was not grabbed with force;" ¹⁴ and if a spirit of jealousy passes over him, so that he is jealous of his wife since she defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy passes over him so that he is jealous of his wife even though she has not defiled herself, ¹⁵ then the man will bring his wife to the priest and bring her approach present for her, the tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall not pour oil on it, neither shall he put frankincense on it, for it is an approach present of jealousies, a memorial approach present, a reminder of depravity. ¹⁶ Then the priest will bring her near and stand her before Yahweh. ¹⁷ And the priest will take holy water in an earthenware vessel, and from the soil which comes to be on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take some and put it into the water. ¹⁸ The priest will stand the woman before Yahweh, uncover the woman's head and put the memorial approach present on her palms. It is an approach present of jealousies. Yet in the hand of the priest shall come to be the waters of bitterness that bring the curse. ¹⁹ Then the priest will adjure her and say to the woman:If no man has lain with you, and if you have not swerved in uncleanness while under your husband's authority, be innocent from the waters of bitterness that bring this curse. ²⁰ Yet you, in case you have swerved while under your husband's authority, and in case you have defiled yourself, while a man other than your husband gave his emission to you, ²¹ (thus the priest will adjure the woman with the oath of imprecation, and the priest will say to the woman:) Yahweh shall set you as an imprecation and an oath in the midst of your people when Yahweh makes your thigh fall away and your belly turgid. ²² So the waters that bring this curse will come into your bowels causing the belly to be turgid and the thigh to fall away. And the woman will say:Amen, amen. ²³ The priest will write these imprecations on a scroll, and he will wipe them out with the waters of bitterness. ²⁴ He will cause the woman to drink the waters of bitterness that bring the curse, and the waters that bring the curse will come into her as bitter ones. ²⁵ Then the priest will take from the hand of the woman the approach present of jealousies and wave the approach present before Yahweh and bring it near to the altar. ²⁶ The priest will extract from the approach present a memorial of it and cause it to fume on the altar, and afterward he shall cause the woman to drink the waters. ²⁷ When he causes her to drink the waters then it will come to be, if she has defiled herself and offended with an offense against her husband, that the waters that bring the curse will come into her as bitter ones, and her belly will be turgid, and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will come to be as an imprecation among her people. ²⁸ Yet if the woman has not defiled herself and she is clean, then she is held innocent, and will engender seed. ²⁹ This is the law of jealousies when a woman swerves while under her husband's authority, and she defiles herself, ³⁰ or when a spirit of jealousy is passing over him and the husband is made jealous of his wife, then he will cause the woman to stand before Yahweh. Thus the priest will apply to her all this law.

⁶ Lest you should ponder the path of life, Her routes rove about, yet you know not where."

¹³ She held him fast and kissed him; She set her face with impudence and said to him: ¹⁴ The sacrifices of peace offerings were due from me; Today I paid my vows. ¹⁵ Therefore, I came forth to meet you, To seek your face early, and I have found you." ¹⁶ I have decorated my divan with decorative covers, With bedspreads of Egyptian yarn." ¹⁷ I have wafted my bed with myrrh, Aloes and cinnamon." ¹⁸ Do come, let us satiate ourselves with affection until the morning; Let us make ourselves joyous with love expressions." ¹⁹ For the husband is not in his home; He has gone on his way afar. ²⁰ He took a pouch of silver in his hand, And he shall come back to his home only with the day of full moon." ²¹ She turned him aside with her great influence; With slick words on her lips she induced him. ²² Suddenly he was going after her, Like a bull that comes to the slaughter, Like a calf to the bonds of foolish creatures, ²³ Until an arrow thrusts through his liver, As through a bird that hastened to the snare When it did not know that it was set for its soul."