Numbers 5:31
and the man has been acquitted from iniquity, and that woman bears her iniquity.”
Literal Standard Version
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 20:17And a man who takes his sister, a daughter of his father or daughter of his mother, and he has seen her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness—it is a shame; and they have been cut off before the eyes of the sons of their people; he has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he bears his iniquity.
Psalms 37:6And has brought out your righteousness as light, || And your judgment as noon-day.
Romans 2:8and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness—indignation and 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 →