Numbers 5:27 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁷ ‘And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that brings the curse shall enter her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall waste away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ And when he has made her drink the water, then if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, the curse water which she drank shall be bitterness and cause her body to swell and her thigh to fall away, and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

Common English Bible

²⁷ When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, then the water that brings the curse will enter her, causing bitterness, and her womb will discharge and she will miscarry. The woman will be a curse among her people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And when she drinks it, if she has been defiled, and, having despised her husband, is guilty of adultery, the curse shall pass through her, and as her belly swells up, her thigh shall decay, and the woman shall become a curse and an example to all the people.

Numbers 5:27 Cross References

Psalm 109:18

And he put cursing on as with his garment, So let it enter his inward parts like water, Into his bones and like oil.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I found more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are shackles. He who pleases Elohim escapes from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Isaiah 65:15

“And you shall leave your name as a curse to My chosen, for the Master יהוה  shall put you to death, and call His servants by another name,

Jeremiah 24:9

‘And I shall make them a horror to all the reigns of the earth, for evil, to be a reproach and a byword, a mockery and a curse, in all the places to which I drive them.

Jeremiah 29:18

‘And I shall pursue them with the sword, with scarcity of food, and with pestilence. And I shall make them a horror among all the reigns of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach among all the gentiles where I have driven them.

Jeremiah 29:22

‘And because of them all the exiles of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 42:18

“For thus said יהוה  of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 44:12

‘And I shall take the remnant of Yehuḏ

Zechariah 8:13

‘And it shall be, as you were a curse among the gentiles, O house of Yehuḏ

Numbers 5:20

“But if you have turned aside under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you” –

Numbers 5:28

‘But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be clear and shall conceive children.

Romans 6:21

What fruit, therefore, were you having then, over which you are now ashamed? For the end thereof is death.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To the one we are the smell of death to death, and to the other the fragrance of life to life. And who is competent for these?

Deuteronomy 28:37

“Thus you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a mockery among all the peoples to which יהוה  drives you.

2 Peter 2:10

and most of all those walking after the flesh in filthy lust and despising authority – bold, headstrong, speaking evil of esteemed ones,