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" 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.