Numbers 5:22

May this water that curses go into your stomach and make your belly swell up and your thighs shrink. The woman is to answer, ‘I agree, I agree.’

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In The King James Version

And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

In Context

21(Here the priest shall place the woman under the oath of the curse as follows.) “May the Lord place a curse on you that everyone knows about by having your thighs shrink and your belly swell up.

23The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:15“A curse on anyone who makes a carved image or a metal idol and worships it in secret. It's only an object that someone made, and it's offensive to the Lord!” Everyone says “Amen!”

Job 31:39if I have taken its crops without payment or if I have caused harm to the farmers;

Psalms 41:13Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, from eternity to eternity! Amen and amen!

Psalms 89:52May the Lord be blessed for ever. Amen and amen.

Proverbs 1:31So they'll have to eat the fruit of their own choices, bloated by their own devious schemes.

John 3:3“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “Unless you are reborn, you can't experience God's kingdom.”

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 →

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