Numbers 5:27

And when he hath made her to drink the mayim, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass + 5:27 i.e., been unfaithful against her ish, that the mayim hame'ararim shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall waste away; and the isha shall become a curse among her people.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

In Context

26And the kohen shall take a handful of the minchah, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the Mizbe'ach, and afterward shall cause the isha to drink the mayim.

28And if the isha be not defiled, but be tehorah (clean); then she shall be free, and shall conceive zera.

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Cross References

Numbers 5:20But if thou hast turned astray to another instead of thy ish, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee other than thine ish;

Psalms 83:9Assyria also is joined with them; 1 they are the zero'a (strong arm) of the Bnei Lot. 1 Selah 1

Proverbs 5:4But her end is marah (bitter) as wormwood, 1 sharp as a two-edged cherev. 1

Isaiah 65:15And ye shall leave your shem 1 for a curse unto My Bechir; 1 for Adonoi Hashem shall put thee to death, 1 and call His Avadim by another shem; 1

Jeremiah 29:18And I will pursue them with the cherev, with the ra'av, and with the dever, and will make them a horror to all the mamlechot ha'aretz, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a cherpah, among all the Goyim where I have driven them;

Jeremiah 42:18For thus saith Hashem Tzva'os Elohei Yisroel: As Mine anger and My wrath hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so shall My wrath be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Mitzrayim; and ye shall be an oath, and a horror, and a kelalah (curse), and a cherpah; and ye shall see this makom no more.

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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