King James Version
Numbers 5:31 in the King James Version says “Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.”
Numbers 5:31 · KJV
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“be guiltless”
H5352to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, i.e., extirpated
“Then shall the man”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“and this”
H1931he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“shall bear”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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