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Numbers 30:15

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Then he shall bear her iniquity, i.e; if he tacitly allowed the vow in the first instance, and afterwards forbad its fulfillment, the guilt which such breach of promise involved should rest upon him. For the nature and expiation of such guilt see on Leviticus 5:1-19,

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