Numbers 5:31
What does Numbers 5:31 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 5:31 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Then the man will be free from all wrong, and the woman's sin will be on her.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and the man hath been acquitted from iniquity, and that woman doth bear her iniquity.'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Then shall the man be free from iniquity, but that woman shall bear her iniquity.
Context
v.30or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then shall he set the woman before Jehovah, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
v.31This passage
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Romans 2:8
but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,
- Leviticus 20:17
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 shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
- Numbers 9:13
But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he offered not the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
- Psalms 37:6
And he will make thy righteousness to go forth as the light, And thy justice as the noonday.
- Leviticus 20:10
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
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