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31Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

Numbers 5:31

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-31)

We have here the law concerning the solemn trial of a wife whose husband was jealous of her. Observe, I. What was the case supposed: That a man had some reason to suspect his wife to have committed adultery, Luke 5:12-14. Here, 1. The sin of adultery is justly represented as an exceedingly sinful sin; it is going aside from God and virtue, and the good way, Prov. 2:17. It is committing a trespass…

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