Numbers 5:31
The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 20:17If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's shame: they have committed a crime: they shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's nakedness, and they shall bear their iniquity.
Psalms 37:6And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Romans 2:8But to them that are contentious, and who obey not the truth, but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.
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 →