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Numbers 5:22

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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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Numbers 5:22 in other translations

and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen.

Numbers 5:22 · American Standard Version

Numbers 5:22 in context

  1. 20But if you have gone astray, being under your husband’s authority, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband—”
  2. 21then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;
  3. 22and 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.”
  4. 23“ ‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
  5. 24He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.