Numbers 5:24

and shall cause the woman to drink the deadly water that causeth a curse,—and the deadly water that causeth a curse shall enter into her.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.

In Context

23Then shall the priest write these curses in a scroll,—and wipe them out into the deadly water;

25Then shall the priest take from the hand of the woman the jealousy meal-offering,—and shall wave the meal-offering before Yahweh, and bring it near unto the altar;

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Cross References

Zechariah 5:3Then said he unto me, This, is the curse, which is going forth over the face of all the earth,—Because, every one who stealeth, on the one side, hath in one way been let off, and, every one who sweareth, on the other side, hath in another way been let off,

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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