Numbers 5:31
The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”
Berean Standard Bible
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 a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.
Psalms 37:6He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.
Romans 2:8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
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 →