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Numbers 5:13Num.5.13

And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and [there be] no witness against her, neither she be taken [with the manner];

KJV

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

si un autre a commerce avec elle, et que la chose soit cachée aux yeux de son mari; si elle s'est souillée en secret, sans qu'il y ait de témoin contre elle, et sans qu'elle ait été prise sur le fait; -

KJV

And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and [there be] no witness against her, neither she be taken [with the manner];

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    for the husband to do what the wife may not." In this sense, too, we are to understand the words of Num. 5:13 : "If [Vulg.: 'But'] the adultery is secret, and cannot be provided by witnesses, because she was not found in adultery [stupro]." Reply to Objection 3: Nothing prevents…
  • Sedlacek

    CSCO 085 (Syr 40) — CSCO 085 (Syr 40) - Sedlacek 1922 - Dionysius bar Salibi Commentarii in Evangelia I.2 - v (incl I.1) (versio)

    actum est verbum Dei, h. e. man- datum Dei factum est ad Iohannem. ! Cfr. Deut., xvi, 0; xix, 15; Num., v, 13; MATTH, xvii, 16. 一 ? NEH,,IX, 29; EZECH., Xx, 13; Gal.,11, 12. — ? Luc., II 1. — *Luc., IIL 1 .2。 p. 138. p. 139. p. 140. A«( 104 )»x- Matthaeus dicit:…

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