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Numbers 5:21-23
1599 Geneva Bible
Numbers 5:21-23
1599 Geneva Bible
21 (Then the Priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the Priest shall say unto the woman:) The Lord make thee to be [a]accursed, and detestable for the oath among the people, and the Lord cause thy thigh to [b]rot, and thy belly to swell:
22 And that this cursed water may go into thy bowels, to cause thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot. Then the woman shall answer, [c]Amen, Amen.
23 After, the Priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall [d]blot them out with the bitter water,
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- Numbers 5:21 Both because she had committed so heinous a fault, and forsware herself in denying the same.
- Numbers 5:21 Hebrew, to fall.
- Numbers 5:22 That is, be it so, as thou wishest, as Ps. 41:23; Deut. 27:15.
- Numbers 5:23 Shall wash the curses, which are written, into the water in the vessel.
Numbers 5:21-23
New International Version
Numbers 5:21-23
New International Version
21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse(A)—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[a] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water(B) that brings a curse(C) enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”
“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.(D)”
23 “‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll(E) and then wash them off into the bitter water.
Footnotes
- Numbers 5:21 That is, may he cause your name to be used in cursing (see Jer. 29:22); or, may others see that you are cursed; similarly in verse 27.
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