Numbers 5:31 (BSB)

The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”

From Numbers 5. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 5:31

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 5:11-31: 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, Num 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, Pro 2:17.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 5:31: Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity,.... Which otherwise he would not, by conniving at her loose way of living, and not reproving her for it, and bringing her either to repentance or punishment; and retaining and encouraging jealousy in his mind, without declaring it, and his reasons for it: the sense of the passage seems to be, that when a man had any...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 5:31: Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity. (o) The man might accuse his wife on suspicion and not be reproved.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 5:11-31: Num 5:11-31 Sentence of God upon Wives Suspected of Adultery. - As any suspicion cherished by a man against his wife, that she either is or has been guilty of adultery, whether well-founded or not, is sufficient to shake the marriage connection to its very roots, and to undermine, along with marriage, the foundation of the civil commonwealth, it was of the greatest importance to...