Numbers 5:12

5:12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

Numbers 15:27

15:27 “‘If any person sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.

Numbers 19:8

19:8 The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

Numbers 30:15

30:15 But if he should nullify them after he has heard them, then he will bear her iniquity.”


tn The Hebrew text hasוְאִם־נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת (vÿim-nefeshakhat), sometime translated “and if any soul.” But the word describes the whole person, the soul in the body; it refers here to the individual who sins.

sn Here the text makes clear that he had at least one assistant.

sn In other words, he will pay the penalty for making her break her vows if he makes her stop what she vowed. It will not be her responsibility.