Numbers 5:22
May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
23And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Job 31:39if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
Psalms 41:13Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
Psalms 89:52Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen.
Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
John 3:3Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
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 →