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Numbers 5:31

29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”
KJV
Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
WEB
The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’”
ASV
And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.
DARBY
Then shall the man be free from iniquity, but that woman shall bear her iniquity.
BLB
And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.”
ÅB
Og mannen skal være fri for skyld, men kvinnen skal lide for sin misgjerning.
OTB
Mannen vil være fri for skyld, men kvinnen skal bære konsekvensene av sin skyld.’”
B1930
Og mannen skal være fri for skyld, men kvinnen skal lide for sin misgjerning.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Leviticus 20:10

    And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

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  • Romans 2:8–9

    But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

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  • Psalms 37:6

    And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

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  • Leviticus 20:17–20

    And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

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  • Ezekiel 18:4

    Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

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  • Numbers 9:13

    But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

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