Numeri 15:31

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

want hij heeft des Heeren woord geminacht en zijn gebod gebroken. Die mens zal stellig uitgeroeid worden; zijn schuld is op hem.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
want hij heeft het woord des Heren veracht en zijn gebod laten varen; hij zal zekerlijk uitgeroeid worden; de schuld zij op hem.

Staten Vertaling
Want zij heeft het woord des HEEREN veracht en Zijn gebod vernietigd; diezelve ziel zal ganselijk uitgeroeid worden; haar ongerechtigheid is op haar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

despised: Leviticus 26:15, Leviticus 26:43, 2 Samuel 12:9, Psalms 119:126, Proverbs 13:13, Isaiah 30:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:8, Hebrews 10:28, Hebrews 10:29

his iniquity: Leviticus 5:1, Psalms 38:4, Isaiah 53:6, Ezekiel 18:20, 1 Peter 2:24, 2 Peter 2:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:14 - cut Exodus 21:14 - presumptuously Leviticus 17:4 - be cut off Numbers 9:13 - forbeareth Numbers 25:6 - in the sight of Moses Deuteronomy 17:13 - presumptuously 1 Samuel 3:14 - the iniquity Psalms 19:13 - presumptuous Psalms 51:16 - desirest Ezekiel 20:13 - and my Malachi 2:12 - cut Luke 12:47 - knew 1 John 3:4 - transgresseth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment,.... That is, has broken it through contempt of it, despising it as a command of God, paying no regard to it as a law of his; otherwise such who sin ignorantly break the commandment of God:

that soul shall be utterly cut off; or "in cutting off shall be cut off" u; most certainly cut off and entirely ruined and destroyed in this world and in that to come, as the Targum of Jonathan; and Maimonides w understands it of such a cutting off, that the soul itself perishes and is no more; but such annihilation the Scripture nowhere gives us any reason to believe:

his iniquity [shall be] upon him; the punishment of it, no atonement being made for it by sacrifice; it shall be upon him and him only, or be "in him" x, not repented of and not forgiven.

u הכרת תכרת "excidendo excidetur", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius. w In Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 11. sect. 1. x בה "in ea", Montanus, Junins Tremellius, Drusius "in ipso", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The heavy punishments which had already overtaken the people might naturally give rise to apprehensions for the future, especially in view of the fact that on the approaching entrance into Canaan the complete observance of the Law in all its details would become imperative on them. To meet such apprehensions a distinction is emphatically drawn between sins of ignorance (Leviticus 4:13 ff) and those of presumption Numbers 15:30-31. The passage deals separately with imperfections of obedience which would be regarded as attaching to the whole nation Numbers 15:22-26, and those of individuals Numbers 15:27-30.

Numbers 15:24

Without the knowledge of the congregation - literally, as marginal. The words point to an error of omission which escaped notice at the time: i. e. to an oversight.

Numbers 15:30

Presumptuously - The original (compare the margin, and Exodus 14:8) imports something done willfully and openly; in the case of a sin against God it implies that the act is committed ostentatiously and in bravado.

Reproacheth the Lord - Rather, revileth or blasphemeth the Lord: compare Ezekiel 20:27.