Numbers 5:31

Then the man shall be clear from sin, and that woman shall bear her sin.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30or in the case of a man on whomsoever the spirit of jealousy should come, and he should be jealous of his wife, and he should place his wife before the Lord, and the priest shall execute toward her all this law.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:17Whosoever shall take his sister by his father or by his mother, and shall see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, it is a reproach: they shall be destroyed before the children of their family; he has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, they shall bear their sin.

Psalms 37:6My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, 1 Because of my foolishness. 1

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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