Tag: Is Number 5:11-31 about aborting a pregnancy?

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    Is Numbers 5:11-31 about aborting a pregnancy?

    No. This passage of scripture instructs priests about what to do when a man suspects his wife of cheating on her, and she says that she is innocent. The gist is that a man suspects his wife of cheating on him. He takes her to the priest. She offers a sacrifice of barley meal. The priest takes some holy water and mixes it with dust from the floor of the tabernacle. This is a harmless concoction that does nothing to human physiology. The mixing of the dust with the holy water represents impurity. It was not some kind of “morning after pill.”