Numbers 5:31
The man will be free from guilt for bringing his wife to the priest. The woman must bear any guilt she might have.”
Unlocked Literal 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 sleeps with his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and he uncovers her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing. They must be cut off from the presence of their people, because he has slept with his sister. He must carry his guilt.
Psalms 37:6He will display your justice like the daylight 1 and your innocence like the day at noon. 1
Romans 2:8But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth but obey unrighteousness, wrath and fierce anger will come.
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 →