Proverbs 30:20 Cross References - Rotherham

²⁰ So, is the way of a woman committing adultery,––she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no iniquity!

¹¹ And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying: ¹² Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them,––When, any man’s wife, shall turn aside, and commit against him an act of unfaithfulness; ¹³ and a man shall lie with her carnally, and it shall be concealed from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, but, she, hath committed uncleanness,––though, witness, there is none against her, and, she, hath not been caught; ¹⁴ but there shall pass over him a spirit of jealousy, and he shall become jealous of his wife, she having committed uncleanness,––or there shall pass over him a spirit of jealousy, and he shall become jealous of his wife, she not, having committed uncleanness, ¹⁵ then shall the man bring in his wife unto the priest, and shall bring in her offering for her, the tenth of an ephah of the meal of barley,––he shall not pour thereon oil, nor put thereon frankincense, for, a jealousy gift, it is, a reminding gift, bringing to mind iniquity. ¹⁶ Then shall the priest bring her near,––and cause her to stand before Yahweh; ¹⁷ and the priest shall take hallowed water in an earthen vessel,––and, of the dust which shall be upon the floor of the habitation, shall the priest take, and put into the water; ¹⁸ and the priest shall cause the woman to stand before Yahweh, and shall bare the head of the woman, and shall place upon her hands the reminding gift, it being, a jealousy gift,––and, in the hand of the priest, shall be the deadly water, that bringeth a curse; ¹⁹ and the priest shall put her on oath, and shall say unto the woman:––If no man hath lain with thee, and if thou hast not turned aside, in uncleanness, [unto another] instead of thy husband, be thou clear from this deadly water that causeth a curse. ²⁰ But, if, thou, hast turned aside [to another] instead of thy husband, and if thou hast made thyself unclean,––in that a man hath known thee carnally, other than thy husband, ²¹ then shall the priest put the woman on oath, with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Yahweh give thee up for a curse and for an oath, in the midst of thy people,––in that Yahweh shall give up thy thigh to fall away, and thy womb to swell: ²² so shall this water that causeth a curse, enter into thy body, causing womb to swell and thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen. ²³ Then shall the priest write these curses in a scroll,––and wipe them out into the deadly water; ²⁴ and shall cause the woman to drink the deadly water that causeth a curse,––and the deadly water that causeth a curse shall enter into her. ²⁵ Then shall the priest take from the hand of the woman the jealousy meal–offering,––and shall wave the meal–offering before Yahweh, and bring it near unto the altar; ²⁶ and the priest shall take a handful from the meal–offering, a remembrancer thereof, and make a perfume at the altar,––and, afterwards, shall cause the woman to drink the water. ²⁷ And, as soon as he causeth her to drink the water, then shall it be, that, if she have fallen into uncleanness, and committed unfaithfulness against her husband, as soon as the deadly water that causeth a curse hath entered into her, so soon shall her womb swell and her thigh fall away,––thus shall the woman become a curse, in the midst of her people. ²⁸ But, if the woman have not fallen into uncleanness, but is pure, then shall she be clear, and shall bear seed. ²⁹ This, is the law of jealousies,––when a wife shall turn aside [to another] instead of her husband, and fall into uncleanness; ³⁰ or, when there passeth over, a husband, a spirit of jealousy, and he becometh jealous of his wife, then shall he cause the woman to stand before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law:

⁶ Lest, the path of life, she should ponder, her tracks have wandered she knoweth not [whither].

¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him, and, embolding her face, she said to him: ¹⁴ Peace–offerings, are by me, today, have I paid my vows; ¹⁵ For this cause, came I forth to meet thee, to seek diligently thy face, and I have found thee: ¹⁶ Coverlets, have I spread on my couch of pleasure, dark–hued stuffs, of the yarn of Egypt; ¹⁷ I have sprinkled my bed, with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon: ¹⁸ Come! let us take our fill of endearments, until morning, let us delight ourselves with caresses; ¹⁹ For the husband is not in his house, he hath gone on a journey afar; ²⁰ A bag of silver, hath he taken in his hand, On the day of the full moon, will he enter his house. ²¹ She turneth him aside, with her great persuasiveness,––with the flattery of her lips, she compelleth him: ²² Going after her instantly, as an ox, to the slaughter, he entereth, and, as in fetters, unto the correction of a fool. ²³ Until an arrow cleaveth his liver, as a bird hasteth into a snare, and knoweth not, that, for his life, it is!