Numbers 5:22

and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

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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

21then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May the LORD make you a curse and an oath amongst your people, when the LORD allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

23“‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

Job 31:39if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

Psalms 41:13Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

Psalms 89:52Blessed be the LORD forever more. Amen, and Amen.

Proverbs 1:31Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

John 3:3Yeshua answered him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see 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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