Numbers 5:21 - Tree of Life Version

²¹ Then the kohen is to have the woman swear under this oath of a curse, and say to the woman—‘then let Adonai cause you to be cursed and denounced among your people when Adonai causes your thigh to rot and your belly to swell.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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 a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Then the priest shall make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman, The Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people when the Lord makes your thigh fall away and your body swell.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell;

Common English Bible

²¹ then the priest must make the woman utter the curse and say to the woman, “May the LORD make you a curse and a harmful pledge among your people, when the LORD induces a miscarriage and your womb discharges.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ these curses shall be thrown upon you: May the Lord turn you into a curse and an example among all his people. May he cause your thigh to rot, and may your abdomen swell up and burst out.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ These curses shall light upon thee. The Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all among his people. May he make thy thigh to rot: and may thy belly swell and burst asunder.

Numbers 5:21 Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:15

You yourself will be striken by multiple illnesses of your intestines, day after day, until your intestines drop out because of the illness.”

Nehemiah 10:29

“Now the rest of the people —the kohanim, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands for the sake of the Torah of God, along with their wives, their sons and their daughters who were able to understand—

Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Isaiah 65:15

You will leave your name behind as a curse for My chosen ones, and Adonai Elohim will slay you. But He will call His servants by another name.

Jeremiah 29:22

So a curse will be taken up by everyone in exile from Judah who are in Babylon, saying: ‘May Adonai make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire’—

Numbers 5:27

“When she is made to drink the water that carries the curse, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, it will enter her and cause bitterness—her abdomen will swell and her thigh will waste away. She will be accursed among her people.

Matthew 26:74

Then he began to curse and to swear an oath: “I do not know the Man!” Right then, a rooster crowed.

Joshua 6:26

At that time Joshua made an oath saying: “Cursed before Adonai is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho! On his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and on his youngest son he will set up its gates.”

1 Samuel 14:24

Now the men of Israel were hard-pressed that day, for Saul put the people under oath saying, “Cursed be the man that eats any food before evening, until I have avenged myself on my enemies!” So none of the people tasted food.