Numbers 5:22

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“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.’”

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BSBPD

“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.’”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and these waters which cause the curse have gone into thy bowels, to cause the belly to swell, and the thigh to fall; and the woman hath said, Amen, Amen.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 5:22 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 5:27When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.
  2. 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!’
  3. Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
  4. Job 31:39if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
  5. Psalms 7:4if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
  6. Psalms 41:13Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
  7. Psalms 72:19And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.
  8. Psalms 89:52Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen.
  9. Psalms 109:18The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
  10. Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
  11. Ezekiel 3:3“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
  12. John 3:3Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
  13. John 3:11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.
  14. John 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
  15. John 6:53So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.

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