Números 15:31

31 "Porque ha menospreciado la palabra del SEÑOR, y ha quebrantado su mandamiento, esa persona será enteramente cortada; su culpa caerá sobre ella."

Números 15:31 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 15:31

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" F21; most certainly cut off and entirely ruined and destroyed in this world and in that to come, as the Targum of Jonathan; and Maimonides F23 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" F24, not repented of and not forgiven.


FOOTNOTES:

F21 (trkt trkh) "excidendo excidetur", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius.
F23 In Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 11. sect. 1.
F24 (hb) "in ea", Montanus, Junins & Tremellius, Drusius; "in ipso", Piscator.

Números 15:31 In-Context

29 "Para el que es nativo entre los hijos de Israel y para el extranjero que reside entre ellos, tendréis una sola ley para el que haga algo inadvertidamente.
30 "Pero aquél que obre con desafío, ya sea nativo o extranjero, ése blasfema contra el SEÑOR, y esa persona será cortada de entre su pueblo.
31 "Porque ha menospreciado la palabra del SEÑOR, y ha quebrantado su mandamiento, esa persona será enteramente cortada; su culpa caerá sobre ella."
32 Cuando los hijos de Israel estaban en el desierto, encontraron a un hombre que recogía leña en el día de reposo.
33 Los que lo encontraron recogiendo leña, lo llevaron a Moisés y a Aarón y a toda la congregación;
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