Numbers 5:31

and the man hath been acquitted from iniquity, and that woman doth bear her iniquity.'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30or when a spirit of jealousy passeth over a man, and he hath been jealous of his wife, then he hath caused the woman to stand before Jehovah, and the priest hath done to her all this law,

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:17'And a man who taketh his sister, a daughter of his father or daughter of his mother, and he hath seen her nakedness, and she seeth his nakedness: it is a shame; and they have been cut off before the eyes of the sons of their people; the nakedness of his sister he hath uncovered; his iniquity he beareth.

Psalms 37:6And hath brought out as light thy righteousness, And thy 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 →

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