If the spirit of doubt comes into her husband's heart, and he has doubts of his wife, with good cause; or if he has doubts of her without cause:

And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses,

Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

So Moses put their cause before the Lord.

It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.