“Speak to
the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful
to him so that another man has sexual relations with her,
and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there
is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act), and if
feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is
impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure—then
he is to take his wife to the priest.” Numbers
5:12-15
No,
but there were definitely consequences for unfaithfulness in the Bible for the
man and woman. “Do not commit adultery”
is in the Top 10 commandments. No man
who committed adultery got away with it because he was a man. However, jealousy is a powerful emotion that
when it sneaks into a relationship, it causes serious emotional strain. The purpose of the women’s unfaithfulness test
in Numbers 5 was to resolve that suspicion once and for all.