Numbers 5:31

Then the man will be free from all wrong, and the woman's sin will be on her.

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In The King James Version

Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

In Context

30Or for a husband who, in a bitter spirit, has doubts in his heart about his wife; let him take her to the priest, who will put in force this law.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:17And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him.

Psalms 37:6And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

Romans 2:8But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:12-31

The Bitter Water of Jealousy. ( b. c. 1490.) 11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 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; 14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of… Read the whole commentary →

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