Numbers 5:22
And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.
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23And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out the writing with the bitter water;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.
Job 31:39If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;
Psalms 41:13\41:12\And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.
Psalms 89:52\89:51\The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.
Proverbs 1:31So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
John 3:3Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:12-31
The Bitter Water of Jealousy. ( b. c. 1490.) 11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; 14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of… Read the whole commentary →